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cn coin 1712

Connected to Type

CN Type 6017 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

4. c. BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0947_V2 🔍
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0947_R2 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ; mon. ΗΡ
Design
Ethnic and monogram surrounded by three dolphins swimming in clockwise direction.
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Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Athena/dolphin-series, large 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 17 mm / Min: 16 mm
Weight
2.32 g
Owner

Istanbul Arkeoloji, Müzeleri Müdurlügü, Istanbul, tr

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 336

Provenience: Sammlung Diojen

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 947, Istanbul 336

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 130, nr. 947, pl. 39, pic. 947  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 130, nr. 946-949, pl. 39 ❐

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. 89, nr. 1424 (Denomination D, 4th c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 1712, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1712 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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