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cn coin 1773

Connected to Type

CN Type 6205 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1275_V16 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1275_R19 🔍
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: 29 mm / Min: 22 mm
Weight
9.31 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 377

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1275, Par. 242

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 149, nr. 1275, pl. 60, pic. 1275  ❐

Mionnet, T.1. Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, Paris 1806 p. 377, nr. 85  ❐

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 1773, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1773 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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