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cn coin 496

Connected to Type

CN Type 6121 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1115_V6 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1115_R13 🔍
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
Max: 22 mm / Min: 21 mm
Weight
5.90 g
Owner

Istanbul Arkeoloji, Müzeleri Müdurlügü, Istanbul, tr

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 343

Provenience: Sammlung Diojen

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1115, Istanbul 343

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 140, nr. 1115  ❐

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 496, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_496 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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