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cn coin 491

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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_1108_R6 🔍
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙ
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

eponymous deity/heroes: Dioskouri( ) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Dionysus/Poseidon-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 21 mm / Min: 20 mm
Weight
5.50 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.: 352

Provenience: Fonds général 352; Ex coll. Pellerin 1776

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1108, Paris 352

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 140, nr. 1108, pl. 51, pic. 1108  ❐

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 491, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_491 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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