Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 690

Connected to Type

CN Type 7126 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2089_V8 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath, one curl falling on each shoulder. Border of dots.
go to the NLP result of this description
Reverse
Die
Byz_2089_R13 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝ-ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch. Border of dots.
go to the NLP result of this description
Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
7.62 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 366

Provenience: Fonds général 366

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 2089, Paris 365

Public Commentary

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

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 147, nr. 2089, pl. 128, pic. 2089  ❐

Mionnet, T.1. Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, Paris 1806 p. 378, nr. 97  ❐

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 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 690, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_690 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us