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cn coin 876

Connected to Type

CN Type 8363 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 217-218 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1642_V151 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Μ Ο*ΠΕ* ΔΙΑΔΟ*VΜ*ЄΝΙΑΝΟϹ Κ
Design
Bust of youthful Diadumenian, right, wearing scale cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1642_R310 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ-Ι *ΝΕ* ΤΟ Ζ // ΒVΖΑ*ΝΤ*Ι/ΩΝ
Design
Galley, under full sail, sailing left, in waters.
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Persons

eponymous deity/heroes: Nike (Gottheit) 🔍

Sitter: Diadumenian 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
8.84 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: 1642, London 165

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 90, nr. 1642, pl. 91, pic. 1642  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 104, nr. 90  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 46, nr. 17  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 90, nr. 1641-1643 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 104, nr. 90 ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 46, nr. 17 ❐

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cn coin 876, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_876 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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