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cn coin 5986

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CN Type 6157 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 235-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1183z_V45z 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1182z_R49z 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ ΑΘΑΝΑ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Persons

Magistrate: Athanaion 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 28 mm / Min: 25.5 mm
Weight
8.29 g
Axis
2
Owner

W.M. Stancomb, Devizes, gb

Citation

Stancomb, Some Countermarked and Overstruck Hellenistic Coins from the Region of the Thracian Bosporus 167, 2007 p. 29, nr. 13, pl. 4, pic. 13  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 143, nr. 1182-3, pl. 55, pic. 1182-3 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 143, nr. 1179-1189, pl. 55 ❐

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, 3rd c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 5986, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5986 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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