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cn coin 3124

Connected to Type

CN Type 6031 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 250-219 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0995_V8 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0995_R14 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ // ΕΠΙ ΜΕΝΙΣΚΟΥ
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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Persons

Magistrate: Meniskos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
13.88 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18203976

Provenience: Wohl aus 'Pembroke Sale lot 506'.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 134, nr. 995.1, pl. 43, pic. 995/1  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 145, nr. 30  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Der Io-Mythos auf den Silbermünzen von Byzanz 6, 1966 pl. 2, pic. 22  ❐

Pembroke, Numismata antiqua in tres partes divisa. Collegit olim et r̆i incidi vivens curavit Thomas PembrochiĕtMontis Gomerici Comes, [London] 1746 nr. 506, pl. 38  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 134, nr. 995, pl. 43 ❐

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