cn coin 1744
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cn coin 1744

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CN Type 6156 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1178_V42 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Overstrike
Yes?
Reverse
Die
Byz_1178_R45 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ ΜΕΝΕΚΡ / i.f.r. mon. *ΗΒ*
Design
Cornucopia; to right, undefined mark.
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Overstrike
Yes?
Persons

Magistrate: Menekr... 🔍  

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

Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž (Ermitage), Sankt Petersburg, ru

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 1178, Erm

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 143, nr. 1178, pl. 50, pic. 1178 

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 1744, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1744 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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