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cn coin 518

Connected to Type

CN Type 6127 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1140_V8 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Countermark
Grapes; round.
Reverse
Die
Byz_1141_R11 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ - ΕΠΙ / ΦΑΝΙΩΝΟΣ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Countermark
Thyrsus; oval. Dolphin; round.
Persons

Magistrate: Phanion 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 22 mm / Min: 21 mm
Weight
8.58 g
Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Hunter

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1141, Hunter, H B7

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 141, nr. 1141.2  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 394, nr. 7  ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 74, nr. 6, pl. 13, pic. 20  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 141, nr. 1135-1143, 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 518, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_518 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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