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cn coin 1743

Connected to Type

CN Type 6156 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1176_V40 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Countermark
Yes?
Reverse
Die
Byz_1176_R44 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ ΜΕΝΕΚΡ / i.f.r. mon. *ΔΑ*/ ΛΕΥ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Persons

Magistrate: Menekr... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 28 mm / Min: 24.5 mm
Weight
8.27 g
Owner

Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein, Schlossmuseum, Münzkabinett, Gotha, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1176, Gotha 230

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 143, nr. 1176, pl. 49, pic. 1176  ❐

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 1743, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1743 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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