cn coin 705
cn coin 705-0
cn coin 705-1
Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 705

Connected to Type

CN Type 8778 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

2.-3. c. AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2104_V14 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath, two curls falling on his right and one on his left shoulder. Border of dots.
go to the NLP result of this description
Reverse
Die
Byz_2106_R29 🔍
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
5.64 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: 2106, Hunter H B15

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 148, nr. 2106.2  ❐

Combe, Nummorum Veterum Populorum Et Urbium, Qui In Museo Gulielmi Hunter Asservantur: Descriptio Figuris Illustrata, Londini 1782 p. 75, nr. 17  ❐

Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection 1, Glasgow 1899 p. 395, nr. 15  ❐

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)  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 705, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_705 [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