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cn coin 1763

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CN Type 6187 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1258_V2 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1258_R2 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤ - ΚΑΛΧΑΔ / i.f.r. *ΔΑ*
Design
Poseidon seated right on rock, naked to waist, holding aplustre in outstretched right hand and trident in left arm over his shoulder; to right, monogram. Ground line.
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Metrology
Denomination
ByzKalch: Demeter/Poseidon-series 🔍
Material
Diameter
Max: 23.5 mm / Min: 22 mm
Weight
8.42 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: 1258, Sir Weber 2585

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 149, nr. 1258, pl. 60, pic. 1258 

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 pl. 98, pic. 2585 

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 149, nr. 1257-1262, pl. 60

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. 1428 (Denomination B) 

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cn coin 1763, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1763 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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