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cn coin 456

Connected to Type

CN Type 6099 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1067_V11 🔍
Design
Head of Poseidon, right, wearing taenia.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1068_R25 🔍
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
4.47 g
Owner

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Archäologisches Museum, Münster, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Bieder

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1068, Münster 7

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 138, nr. 1068  ❐

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 456, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_456 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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