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cn coin 1739

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CN Type 6156 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1172_V36 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1172_R40 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ ΜΕΝΕΚΡ / i.f.r. mon. *ΔΕ*
Design
Cornucopia; to right, baetyl.
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Persons

Magistrate: Menekr... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 28 mm / Min: 26 mm
Weight
9.29 g
Owner

Plazzo Madama, Museo Civico di Torino, Museo Civico di Numismatica, Etnografia, Arte Orientali, Turin, it ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 2016

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1172, M. Turin 2016

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 142, nr. 1172, pl. 49, pic. 1172  ❐

Lavy, Museo numismatico Lavy, appartente alla R.Accademia delle Scienze di Torino., Torino 1839 nr. 1000  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 142-143, nr. 1167-1178, pl. 54-55 ❐

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. 87, nr. 1414 (Denomination A/B, 3rd c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 1739, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1739 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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