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cn coin 729

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CN Type 8781 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

2.-3. c. AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_2119_V20 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath, one curl falling on each shoulder. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_2121_R42 🔍
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
21 mm
Weight
6.19 g
Axis
2
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18236005

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 2121, B 165

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 149, nr. 2121.1, pl. 130, pic. 2121/1  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 150, nr. 73  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 149-150, nr. 2119-2122, pl. 130, pic. 2119-2122 ❐

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cn coin 729, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_729 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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