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cn coin 3421

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CN Type 6121 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1122_V12 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Countermark
Helmet.
Reverse
Die
Byz_1122_R20 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ / ΑΣΩΠΙΟΥ - ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Nude Poseidon standing facing, head left, chlamys over left shoulder, holding Nike standing left in outstretched right hand and trident in left arm.
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Countermark
Ear; round.
Persons

Magistrate: Asopios 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
6.70 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18234902

Provenience: Sammlung Imhoof

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 140, nr. 1122, pl. 52, pic. 1122  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 139-140, nr. 1103-1130, pl. 51-52 ❐

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. 1415 (Denomination A/B, 2nd c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 3421, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3421 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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