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cn coin 721

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CN Type 8778 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

2.-3. c. AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2114_V19 🔍
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_2114_R37 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Bunch of grapes on vine branch; to left, a leaf. Border of dots.
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Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 21 mm / Min: 20 mm
Weight
5.98 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: 2114, London 246

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 149, nr. 2114.1, pl. 130, pic. 2114/1  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 97, nr. 45  ❐

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 721, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_721 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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