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cn coin 490

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CN Type 6121 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1107_V3 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1107_R5 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ / ΑΣΩΠΙΟΥ - ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Nude Poseidon standing facing, head left, chlamys over left shoulder, holding Nike standing left in outstretched right hand and trident in left arm.
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Persons

Magistrate: Asopios 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Dionysus/Poseidon-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
6.71 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.: 350

Provenience: Fonds général 350

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1107, Paris 350

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 140, nr. 1107, pl. 51, pic. 1107  ❐

Mionnet, T.1. Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, Paris 1806 p. 378, nr. 102  ❐

Pellerin, Mélange de diverses médailles 1.2. Médailles impériales en or, en argent et en bronze, Paris 1765 pl. 34, pic. 17  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 139-140, nr. 1103-1130, pl. 51-52 ❐

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. 87, nr. 1415 (Denomination A/B, 2nd c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 490, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_490 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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