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cn coin 48486

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CN Type 6047 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

250-220/219 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΥ ΕΠΙ ΣΦΟΔΡΙΑ
Design
Poseidon seated right on rock, holding aplustre and trident.
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Symbol
ΣΙ (position: )
Persons

Magistrate: Sphodrias 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Phoenician
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
13.66 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 203, 5.3.2012, lot 105 = Künker 236, 07.10.2013, lot 21.

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1004-1005.1007-1013, pl. 44-45 ❐

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cn coin 48486, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_48486 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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