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cn coin 1720

Connected to Type

CN Type 6023 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

4. c. BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0956_V2 🔍
Design
Head of Demeter, left, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0957_R4 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ // ΕΠ ΚΛΕΩ; mon. *ΜΕ*
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, monogram.
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Persons

Magistrate: Kleo... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/bull-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 22 mm / Min: 20 mm
Weight
4.24 g
Owner

Unknown, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Lischine

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 957,Li306

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 131, nr. 957, pl. 40, pic. 957  ❐

Lischine, Collection C. N. Lischine, Monnaies greques. Thrace, Macon 1902, 1902 nr. 306  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 131-132, nr. 954-975, pl. 40-41 ❐

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. 88, nr. 1418 (Denomination B, late 4th c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 1720, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1720 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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