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cn coin 1759

Connected to Type

CN Type 6185 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1254_V3 🔍
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1254_R3 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝ // ΚΑΛΧΑ / i.f.l. mon. *ΔΑ*
Design
Bull standing left on a ear of corn lying left.
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Metrology
Denomination
ByzKalch: Athena/bull-series, large 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20 mm / Min: 17 mm
Weight
4.10 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: 1254, Gotha 200

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 148, nr. 1254, pl. 59, pic. 1254  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 148, nr. 1253-1254, pl. 59 ❐

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. 90, nr. 1431 (Denomination C, 2nd c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 1759, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1759 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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