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cn coin 1752

Connected to Type

CN Type 6173 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1234_V2 🔍
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, right.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1234_R2 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ - ΕΠΙ ΜΕΝΙΣΚΟΥ
Design
Tripod with fixture; at right, monogram.
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Persons

Magistrate: Meniskos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Apollo/tripod-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
8.90 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1234, London 225

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 146, nr. 1234.1, pl. 58, pic. 1234/1  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 96, nr. 31  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 146, nr. 1234, pl. 58 ❐

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. 1412 (Denomination A/B)  ❐

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cn coin 1752, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1752 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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