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cn coin 3425

Connected to Type

CN Type 6099 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1070_V12 🔍
Design
Head of Poseidon, right, wearing taenia.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1074_R30 🔍
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙ
Design
Upright trident, right and left dolphins swimming upwards.
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Persons

Magistrate: Dioskouri( ) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Poseidon/trident-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
6.25 g
Axis
11
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18235007

Provenience: Fox 1873

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 138, nr. 1074, pl. 49, pic. 1074  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 147, nr. 50  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Der Io-Mythos auf den Silbermünzen von Byzanz 6, 1966 nr. 15, pl. 2  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 137-139, nr. 1044-1102, pl. 48-51 ❐

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. 87f., nr. 1417 (Denomination B, late 2nd c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 3425, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3425 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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