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cn coin 524

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CN Type 6131 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1150_V16 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Countermark
Grapes; round.
Reverse
Die
Byz_1149_R19 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ - ΕΠΙ / ΒΟΣΠΩΝΟΣ
Design
Countermark
Dolphin; round.
Persons

Magistrate: Bospon 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
Diameter
Max: 26 mm / Min: 25 mm
Weight
8.70 g
Axis
12
Owner

Nomismatiko Mouseio, Athen, gr

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Stamules

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 1150, Stamules 123

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 141, nr. 1150, pl. 53, pic. 1150 

Oikonomos and Varoucha-Christodoulopoulos, Νομισματική Συλλογή Αναστασίου Σταμούλη, Athen 1955 nr. 123 

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 141, nr. 1148-1153, 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 524, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_524 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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