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cn coin 1597

Connected to Type

CN Type 6055 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. middle 3. c.-220/219 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1015_V20 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1015_R31 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ // ΕΠΙ ΟΛΥΜΠΙΟΔΩΡ
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: Olympiodoros 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Phoenician
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 28.5 mm / Min: 27 mm
Weight
13.30 g
Owner

Staatliche Münzsammlung München, München, de ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1015, München 13

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1015.5, pl. 45, pic. 1015/5  ❐

Hirsch, Sammlung Rhusopoulos 13, München 1905 pl. 84, pic. 556  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1015-1016, pl. 45 ❐

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cn coin 1597, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1597 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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