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cn coin 670

Connected to Type

CN Type 7036 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 178 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2066_V20 🔍
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_2068_R31 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ЄΠ / ΑΙ - ΠΟΝΤΙΚ*ΟΥ* / *ΗΡ*
Design
Galley sailing left, in waters; on board, eight rowers in front of two standards; on prow, another transverse standard.
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Persons

eponymous deity/heroes: Aelius Ponticus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 24 mm / Min: 23 mm
Weight
6.51 g
Owner

Nationalmuseet, Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, Kopenhagen, dk ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 2068, Kphgn Byzanz DE 508

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8727

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 145, nr. 2068.2  ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen p. 9, nr. 508  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 145, nr. 2063.2068, pl. 126 ❐

Combe, Veterum Populorum Et Regum Numi Qui In Museo Britannico Adservantur, Londini 1814 p. 90, nr. 1 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 98, nr. 58 ❐

Heuchert, RPC IV: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192). online (temporary), http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ nr. 8727 ❐

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cn coin 670, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_670 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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