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cn coin 679

Connected to Type

CN Type 8775 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

2.-3. c. AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2077_V2 🔍
Design
Draped bust of Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath; thyrsus behind.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_2076_R2 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch; to left, a leaf. Border of dots.
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Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
4.73 g
Owner

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Coin and Medal Collection, Glasgow, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 2077, Hunter H B 16

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 146, nr. 2077, pl. 128, pic. 2077  ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 75, nr. 16, pl. 13, pic. 23  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 395, nr. 16  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 146, nr. 2075-2081, pl. 128, pic. 2075-2081 ❐

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cn coin 679, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_679 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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