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cn coin 6273

Connected to Type

CN Type 6156 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 235-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1175z_V39z 🔍
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Overstrike
Yes.
Reverse
Die
Byz_1175z_R43z 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ - ΕΠΙ ΜΕΝΕΚΡ / i.f.r. mon. *ΔΑ*
Design
Cornucopia.
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Countermark
ΒΥ, uncertain object; rectangular.
Persons

Magistrate: Menekr... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27.5 mm / Min: 25 mm
Weight
9.25 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. 14, pl. 4, pic. 14  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 142-143, nr. 1175-1177, pl. 55, pic. 1175-1177 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 142-143, nr. 1167-1178, pl. 54-55 ❐

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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