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cn coin 1887

Connected to Type

CN Type 6133 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1159_V25 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Countermark
Grapes.
Reverse
Die
Byz_1160_R28 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ - ΕΠΙ / ΜΕΝΙΣΚΟΥ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Countermark
Dolphin; round.
Persons

Magistrate: Meniskos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
10.48 g
Owner

Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Warschau, pl ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 55 846

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Warschau XXIX, 304

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 142, nr. 1160  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 142, nr. 1154-1166, pl. 54 ❐

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. 1414 (Denomination A/B, 3rd c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 1887, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1887 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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