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cn coin 3614

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CN Type 8778 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 100-220 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2114_V19 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath, two curls falling on his right and one on his left shoulder. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_2116_R39 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝ-ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch; to right, a leaf. Border of dots.
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Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
6.34 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18236006

Provenience: Beger, Thes. Br. I 487.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 149, nr. 2116, pl. 130, pic. 2116  ❐

Beger, Thesaurus Brandenburgicus Selectus: sive gemmarum, et numismatum Græcorum, in cimeliarchio electorali Brandenburgico, elegantiorum series, commentario illustratæ, Coloniae Marchicae 1696 nr. 481  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 150, nr. 72  ❐

Gessner, Numismata Graeca Populorum et Urbium, Omnia Quotquot ex Numismato-phylaciis et Scriptoribus de Re numaria comparare licuit, Integra serie Tabulis Æneis Repræsentata, adscriptis Nominibus Museorum unde depromta sunt, et Locis præstantifs: Authorum qui Singula illustrarunt ; digessit et edidit Joh. Jacobus Gessnerus, Tiguri 1738 pl. 16, pic. 21  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 148-149, nr. 2095-2118, pl. 1291-30, pic. 2104-2116 (type criterion: 3 curls)  ❐

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cn coin 3614, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3614 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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