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cn coin 1608

Connected to Type

CN Type 6088 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

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

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1037_V8 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1037_R11 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ // ΕΠΙ ΟΛΥΜΠΙΟΔΩΡΟΥ
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
9 obol 🔍  
Standard: Phoenician
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20 mm / Min: 18 mm
Weight
5.22 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1037, London 171

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 137, nr. 1037, pl. 47, pic. 1037  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 95, nr. 27  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 137, nr. 1037-1040, pl. 47 ❐

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cn coin 1608, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1608 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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