cn coin 699
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cn coin 699

Connected to Type

CN Type 8778 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

2.-3. c. AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2099_V12 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath, three curls falling on his right shoulder. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_2099_R22 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch; a leaf on each side. Border of dots.
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Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
5.97 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: 2099

Public Commentary

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

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 148, nr. 2099, pl. 129, pic. 2099  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 97, nr. 44  ❐

Svoronos, Νομίσματα ανάλεκτα 3, 1839 pl. 1, pic. 14  ❐

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 699, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_699 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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