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cn coin 691

Connected to Type

CN Type 7126 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

2.-3. c. AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2090_V9 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath, one curl falling on each shoulder. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_2089_R13 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝ-ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch. Border of dots.
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Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm
Weight
5.89 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: 2090, Hunter H B 13

Public Commentary

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

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 147, nr. 2090, pl. 128, pic. 2090  ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 75, nr. 14  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 395, nr. 12  ❐

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 691, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_691 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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