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cn coin 6278

Connected to Type

CN Type 6099 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1100_V24 🔍
Design
Head of Poseidon, right, wearing taenia.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1101_R56 🔍
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙ
Design
Upright trident, right and left dolphins swimming upwards.
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Persons

eponymous deity/heroes: Dioskouri( ) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Poseidon/trident-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 23 mm / Min: 22 mm
Weight
8.70 g
Axis
12
Owner

W.M. Stancomb, Devizes, gb

Owner Inventory No.: 5

Public Commentary

Dating by Stancomb: 2nd-1st c. BC

Citation

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 5  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 139, nr. 1101, pl. 51, pic. 1101 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 137-139, nr. 1044-1102, pl. 48-51 ❐

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. 87f., nr. 1417 (Denomination B, late 2nd c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 6278, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6278 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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