cn coin 540
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cn coin 540

Connected to Type

CN Type 6163 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1208_V68 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1208_R72 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ ΝΑΝΝΙ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Persons

Magistrate: Nanni... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
10.80 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1208, London 229

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 144, nr. 1208, pl. 56, pic. 1208  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 144, nr. 1206-1208, pl. 56 ❐

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)  ❐

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cn coin 540, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_540 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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