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cn coin 549

Connected to Type

CN Type 7118 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

2. c. AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1977_V1 🔍
Design
Head of Poseidon, right.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1977_R1 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝ-ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Dolphin swimming upwards.
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Metrology
Denomination
Double unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
20 mm
Weight
4.05 g
Axis
7
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 34960

Provenience: Sammlung E. J. Seltman

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1977, Wien 16

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3909

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 136, nr. 1977.6, pl. 120, pic. 1977/6  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Der Io-Mythos auf den Silbermünzen von Byzanz 6, 1966 pl. 2, pic. 13  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 136, nr. 1977-1978, pl. 120 ❐

Oikonomos and Varoucha-Christodoulopoulos, Νομισματική Συλλογή Αναστασίου Σταμούλη, Athen 1955 nr. 157 ❐

Heuchert, RPC IV: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192). online (temporary), http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ nr. 3909 ❐

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cn coin 549, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_549 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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