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cn coin 1599

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CN Type 6058 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

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

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1018_V23 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1020_R34 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ // ΕΠΙ ΕΚΑΤΟΔΩΡΟΥ
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: Hekatodoros 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Phoenician
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
13.26 g
Owner

Academia Română, Institutul de Arheologie "Vasile Pârvan", Bukarest, ro ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Bassarabescu

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1020, Bassarab. Buk.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 136, nr. 1020.1, pl. 45, pic. 1020/1  ❐

Hirsch, Sammlung Hoskier/South Orange, New Jersey USA 20, München 1907 pl. 8, pic. 207  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 136, nr. 1017-1025, pl. 45-46 ❐

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cn coin 1599, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1599 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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