cn coin 7917

Connected to Type

CN Type 8778 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

2.-3. c. AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

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

Legend

ΒVΖΑ-ΝΤΙΩΝ

Design

Bunch of grapes on vine branch. Border of dots.
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Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 22.3 mm / Min: 20.8 mm

Weight

5.50 g

Axis

Owner

Coll. W. Holt, Sydney, au

Provenience: ex: Numismatik Naumann (2016).

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 149, nr. 2112, pl. 130 ❐

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 7917, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7917 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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