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cn coin 1747

Connected to Type

CN Type 6157 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1181_V42 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1181_R48 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ ΑΘΑΝΑ / i.f.r. mon. *ΗΡ*
Design
Cornucopia; to right, sphinx standing right.
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Persons

Magistrate: Athanaion 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27 mm / Min: 26 mm
Weight
8.89 g
Axis
1
Owner

Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room, Oxford, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1181, OXF 13

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 143, nr. 1181, pl. 50, pic. 1181  ❐

Wise, Nummorum antiquorum scriniis Bodleianis reconditorum catalogus, Oxford 1750 p. 7, pl. 3, pic. 7  ❐

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 1747, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1747 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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