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cn coin 1593

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CN Type 6047 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

250-220/219 BC 

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1012_V18 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1011_R28 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ // ΕΠΙ ΣΦΟΔΡΙΑ; mon. ΣΙ
Design
Poseidon seated right on rock, naked to waist, holding aplustre in outstretched right hand and trident in left arm over his shoulder; to right, monogram. Ground line.
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Persons

Magistrate: Sphodrias 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Phoenician
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 28 mm / Min: 27 mm
Weight
13.58 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 330

Provenience: Fonds général 330

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1012, Paris 235

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1012, pl. 44, pic. 1012  ❐

Mionnet, T.2. Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales T. 2, Paris 1807 p. 498, nr. 477  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1004-1005.1007-1013, pl. 44-45 ❐

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cn coin 1593, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1593 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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