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cn coin 6271

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CN Type 6124 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 235-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ ΑΡΙΣΤ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Persons

Magistrate: Arist- 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26 mm / Min: 25 mm
Weight
9.05 g
Axis
1
Owner

W.M. Stancomb, Devizes, gb

Provenience: M&M 21-22.10.04, 89.

Citation

Stancomb, Some Countermarked and Overstruck Hellenistic Coins from the Region of the Thracian Bosporus 167, 2007 p. 29-30, nr. 12, pl. 4, pic. 12  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 140-144, nr. 1131-1214, pl. 53-56, pic. 1131-1214 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 140-141, nr. 1131-1134, pl. 53 ❐

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 6271, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6271 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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