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cn coin 1745

Connected to Type

CN Type 6157 🔍

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
Bearded male head to l.
Reverse
Die
Byz_1179_R46 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ ΑΘΑΝΑ / i.f.r. mon. ΘΕ
Design
Cornucopia; to right, lyre.
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Overstrike
Yes or double strike.
Persons

Magistrate: Athanaion 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
9.78 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: 1179

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 143, nr. 1179, pl. 50, pic. 1179  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 143, nr. 1179-1189, pl. 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 1745, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1745 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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