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cn coin 526

Connected to Type

CN Type 6133 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1155_V21 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Countermark
Star with eight rays.
Reverse
Die
Byz_1155_R24 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ - ΕΠΙ / ΜΕΝΙΣΚΟΥ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Persons

Magistrate: Meniskos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
8.88 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18234889

Provenience: Sammlung Löbbecke

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1155, Lb.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 142, nr. 1155, pl. 54, pic. 1155  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 142, nr. 1154-1166, pl. 54 ❐

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 526, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_526 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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