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cn coin 443

Connected to Type

CN Type 6099 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1052_V4 🔍
Design
Head of Poseidon, right, wearing taenia.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1052_R9 🔍
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙ
Design
Upright trident, right and left dolphins swimming upwards.
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Persons

eponymous deity/heroes: Dioskouri( ) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Poseidon/trident-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
5.08 g
Owner

Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Bibliothek, Amsterdam, nl

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1052, Amsterdam Nr. 6

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 138, nr. 1052, pl. 48, pic. 1052  ❐

Boissevain, Beschreibung der griechischen autonomen Münzen im Besitze der Kön. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1912 p. 6  ❐

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 443, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_443 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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