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cn coin 698

Connected to Type

CN Type 8778 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

2.-3. c. AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2095_V11 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath, two curls falling on his right and one on his left shoulder. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_2097_R20 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝ-ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch; to right, a leaf. Border of dots.
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Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 24 mm / Min: 23 mm
Weight
7.10 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 2097, Leake 12

Public Commentary

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

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 148, nr. 2097, pl. 129, pic. 2097  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 148-149, nr. 2095-2118, pl. 1291-30, pic. 2104-2116 (type criterion: 3 curls)  ❐

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cn coin 698, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_698 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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