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cn type 6095

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Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

215-200 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Poseidon, left, wearing taenia; behind him trident.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΥ ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ
Design
Prow left; behind, coiling serpent.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: top right)
Persons

Magistrate: Dionysios (Byzantion) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Octobol 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 21 mm / Min: 20 mm
Average Weight
5.67 g (1x)
Public Commentary

Also referred to as cistophoric standard in the literature and dated 188/66-133 BC.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 137, nr. 1043, pl. 47  ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 86, nr. 1410  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.150  🔍

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cn type 6095, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6095 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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