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cn coin 552

Connected to Type

CN Type 7119 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

2. c. AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1979_V1 🔍
Design
Head of Poseidon, right.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1979_R1 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝ-ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Upright trident entwined by a dolphin, head upwards.
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Metrology
Denomination
Double unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
4.33 g
Owner

Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room, Oxford, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1979, OXF 25

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/3911

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 136, nr. 1979.2, pl. 121, pic. 1979/2  ❐

Wise, Nummorum antiquorum scriniis Bodleianis reconditorum catalogus, Oxford 1750 p. 8  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 137, nr. 1983, pl. 121, pic. 1982 ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 75, nr. 21, pl. 13, pic. 25 ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 242, nr. 223 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 149, nr. 64 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Der Io-Mythos auf den Silbermünzen von Byzanz 6, 1966 pl. 2, pic. 14 ❐

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. 3911 ❐

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