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cn coin 616

Connected to Type

CN Type 6980 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 128-136 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2040_V8 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥΖΑΣ
Design
Head of bearded Byzas, right, wearing crested helmet with open visor. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_2040_R7 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ЄΠΙ - ΔΗΜΗΤΡΟϹ · ΤΟ · Β ·
Design
Prow with naval ram, right. Border of dots.
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Persons

eponymous deity/heroes: Demeter (Gottheit) 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
5.91 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: 2040, OXF 28

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/1088

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 141, nr. 2040, pl. 125, pic. 2040  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 140, nr. 2032-2040, pl. 125 ❐

Oikonomos and Varoucha-Christodoulopoulos, Νομισματική Συλλογή Αναστασίου Σταμούλη, Athen 1955 nr. 188 ❐

Amandry et al., RPC III: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. III: Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138), London :  Paris 2015 nr. 1088 ❐

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cn coin 616, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_616 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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