cn coin 53032

Forgery

technique: cast

is in the fogeries collection in the Berlin Coin Cabinet

Connected to types 6055 🔍

• side: both
• skos:narrowMatch

Mint

Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse

Legend

ΒΥ // ΕΠΙ ΟΛΥΜΠΙΟΔΩΡ

Design

Poseidon seated right on rock, naked to waist, holding aplustre in outstretched right hand and trident in left arm over his shoulder; to right, monogram. Ground line.
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Monogram

(position: on the right)

Persons

Magistrate: Olympiodoros 🔍  

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Phoenician

Material

silver 🔍  

Diameter

27 mm

Weight

12.19 g

Axis

12

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18304668

Provenience: 1822 von Knobelsdorff

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1015.5, pl. 45, pic. 1015/5  (on the original coin)  ❐

Hirsch, Sammlung Rhusopoulos 13, München 1905 pl. 84, pic. 556  ❐

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cn coin 53032, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53032 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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