cn coin 495
cn coin 495-0
cn coin 495-1
Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 495

Connected to Type

CN Type 6121 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1113_V5 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
go to the NLP result of this description
Countermark
Helmet to l. in linear square; rectangular.
Reverse
Die
Byz_1114_R12 🔍
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.
go to the NLP result of this description
Countermark
Ear; round.
Persons

Magistrate: Asopios 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Dionysus/Poseidon-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
6.30 g
Axis
12
Owner

Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein, Schlossmuseum, Münzkabinett, Gotha, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1114, Gotha 350

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 140, nr. 1114, pl. 52, pic. 1114  ❐

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)  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 495, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_495 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us