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cn coin 1601

Connected to Type

CN Type 6058 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

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

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1022_V25 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1022_R35 🔍
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
26 mm
Weight
13.69 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 58308

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1022, Pozzi 1921 XXXVII 1134

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 136, nr. 1022.1  ❐

Naville, Sammlung S. Pozzi 1, Genua 1920 pl. 37, pic. 1134  ❐

o. A., Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. The Lockett Collection 3/2. Sicily-Thrace (Gold and Silver), Oxford 1957 p. 23, nr. 1178  ❐

Glendining & Co., Sammlung R. C. Lockett 2, London 1958 pl. 4, pic. 1094  ❐

Comstock and Vermuele, Greek coins 1950 to 1963. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 1964 pl. 6, pic. 69  ❐

Literature

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

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