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cn coin 1612

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CN Type 6095 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1043_V1 🔍
Design
Head of Poseidon, left, wearing taenia; behind him trident.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1043_R1 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ // ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ / i.f. ΒΥ
Design
Prow with naval ram, left; behind, a coiling serpent; in right field above, monogram.
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Persons

Magistrate: Dionysios (Byzantion) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Octobol 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
20 mm
Weight
5.67 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: L 2344

Provenience: Fonds général 331

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1043, Paris 331

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 137, nr. 1043, pl. 47, pic. 1043  ❐

Svoronos, Νομίσματα ανάλεκτα 3, 1839 pl. 1, pic. 6  ❐

Fröhner, Monnaies grecques de la collection Photiadès Pacha, Paris 1890 pl. 8, pic. 1443  ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 43, nr. 28  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 137, nr. 1043, pl. 47 ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 86, nr. 1410 ❐

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cn coin 1612, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1612 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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