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cn coin 687

Connected to Type

CN Type 7126 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

2.-3. c. AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2085_V5 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath, two curls falling on his right shoulder. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_2085_R10 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑ{Ν}-ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch. Border of dots.
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Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20 mm / Min: 19 mm
Weight
4.30 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 2085, London 248

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10363

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 147, nr. 2085, pl. 128, pic. 2085  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 97, nr. 46  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 147, nr. 2084f., 2089-2094, pl. 128, pic. 2084 (Type criterion: two curls)  ❐

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. 10364 ❐

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cn coin 687, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_687 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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