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cn coin 508

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CN Type 6124 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1131_V1 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1131_R1 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ - ΕΠΙ ΘΡΑΣΟ*ΝΚ*
Design
Cornucopia.
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Countermark
Thyrsus; rectangular.
Persons

Magistrate: Thrasonk... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 24 mm / Min: 22 mm
Weight
9.40 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.: 338

Provenience: Fonds général 338

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1131, Paris 338

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 140, nr. 1131, pl. 53, pic. 1131  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 140-141, nr. 1131-1134, pl. 53 ❐

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. 1414 (Denomination A/B, 3rd c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 508, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_508 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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