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cn coin 5985

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CN Type 6121 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

260-246 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1129z_V19z 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Countermark
Helmet to r. with cheek- and neckguards in linear square; rectangular.
Reverse
Die
Byz_1129z_R27z 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ / ΑΣΩΠΙΟΥ - ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Nude Poseidon standing facing, head left, chlamys over left shoulder, holding Nike standing left in outstretched right hand and trident in left arm.
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Countermark
corn ear; round.
Persons

Magistrate: Asopios 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Dionysus/Poseidon-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 22 mm / Min: 21 mm
Weight
8.07 g
Axis
2
Owner

W.M. Stancomb, Devizes, gb

Public Commentary

countermarked by Byzantium and Calchedon 260-246 B.C.

Citation

Stancomb, Some Countermarked and Overstruck Hellenistic Coins from the Region of the Thracian Bosporus 167, 2007 p. 26, nr. 4, pl. 3, pic. 4  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 140, nr. 1129, pl. 52, pic. 1129 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 139-140, nr. 1103-1130, pl. 51-52 ❐

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. 1415 (Denomination A/B, 2nd c. BC)  ❐

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