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cn coin 469

Connected to Type

CN Type 6099 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1081_V16 🔍
Design
Head of Poseidon, right, wearing taenia.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1082_R37 🔍
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
Max: 22 mm / Min: 21 mm
Weight
7.48 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 340

Provenience: Fonds général 340

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1082, Paris 340

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 139, nr. 1082.2, pl. 50, pic. 1082/2  ❐

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 469, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_469 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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