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cn coin 56517

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CN Type 22504 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Koson  

Mint
uncertain 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 54-29 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΚΟΣΩΝ
Design
Marcus Iunius Brutus between two lictors holding fasces advancing left.
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Reverse
Design
Eagle with spread wings standing left, holding wreath in its claw.
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Persons

stated authority: Koson 🔍  

Sitter: Marcus Iunius Brutus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Material
gold 🔍  
Weight
8.43 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Provenience: Fonds général 4

Literature

Burnett et al., RPC I: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius: 44 BC-AD 69, London [u.a.] 1992 nr. 1701B (54-29 BC)  ❐

Hourmouziadis, ΚΟΣΩΝ gold staters and silver drachmae - a die study 166, 2010 p. 289, pic. 1C ❐

Web Reference: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8588285s ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/279422 ❐

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cn coin 56517, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_56517 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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