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cn coin 5331

Connected to Type

CN Type 6037 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

250-220/219 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1002_V13 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath, earrings and necklace.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1002z_R20z 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ // ΕΠΙ ΑΘΑΝΑΙΩΝΟΣ
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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Persons

Magistrate: Athanaion 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Phoenician
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
26.8 mm
Weight
13.18 g
Axis
12
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: SHH 1587

Provenience: SHH 1587; Prof. Dr. Hagen Tronnier Collection, Künker 94th auction ( 27.09.2004)

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 134, nr. 1002.1, pl. 44 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 134, nr. 1001-1002, pl. 44 ❐

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cn coin 5331, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5331 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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