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cn type 6159

Edition
cn.byzantium.1_ed.75
Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ ΕΠΙ ΕΚΑΤΟΔΩΡ
Design
Cornucopia.
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Persons

Magistrate: Hekatodoros 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Demeter/cornucopia-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26 mm / Min: 21 mm
Average Weight
7.46 g (6x)
Axes
1 (1x) 12 (1x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 143, nr. 1191-1199, pl. 55-56  ❐

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. 87, nr. 1414  (Denomination A/B)  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.75  🔍

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