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cn coin 1772

Connected to Type

CN Type 6205 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1274_V15 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1274_R18 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝ - ΚΑΛΧΑ
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
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26 mm / Min: 22 mm
Weight
9.11 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: 1274, London 240

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 149, nr. 1274, pl. 60, pic. 1274  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 107, nr. 2  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 149, nr. 1271-1275, 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 1772, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1772 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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