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cn coin 715

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CN Type 8778 🔍

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Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

2.-3. c. AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2111_V17 🔍
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
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Byz_2111_R34 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch; to right, a leaf. Border of dots.
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Metrology
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Material
Diameter
Max: 22 mm / Min: 21 mm
Weight
4.85 g
Axis
8
Owner

Gosudarstvennyj Muzej Izobrazitelnych Iskusstv imeni A.S. Puškina, Moskau, ru

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 2111, Moskau Pushkin 9

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 149, nr. 2111.2 

Orešnikov, Opisanie drevne-grečeskich monet, prinadležaščich Imperatorskomu Moskovskomu Universitetu, Moskva 1891 p. 72 

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 715, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_715 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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