cn coin 539
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cn coin 539

Connected to Type

CN Type 6156 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1170_V34 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Countermark
Crescent?
Reverse
Die
Byz_1170_R38 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ ΜΕΝΕΚΡ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Countermark
i.f.r. Deer-protome; round. Unter it Δ; round.
Overstrike
i.f.l. bearded male face to r.
Persons

Magistrate: Menek... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27 mm / Min: 25 mm
Weight
9.90 g
Axis
12
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung McClean

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1170, Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean Collection

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 142, nr. 1170, pl. 54, pic. 1170  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 1, Cambridge 1923 p. 146, nr. 4244, pl. 153, pic. 10  ❐

Hirsch, Auktionskatalog (Sammlung Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber/Hamburg) 21, München p. 61, nr. 886  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 142-143, nr. 1167-1178, pl. 54-55 ❐

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 539, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_539 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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