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cn type 6047

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Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

250-220/219 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΥ ΕΠΙ ΣΦΟΔΡΙΑ
Design
Poseidon seated right on rock, holding aplustre and trident.
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Symbol
ΣΙ (position: )
Type variations

1. Reverse: ΣΙ at right

2. Reverse : ΣΙ at left

Persons

Magistrate: Sphodrias 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Phoenician
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 28 mm / Min: 26 mm
Average Weight
13.06 g (10x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 135, nr. 1004-1005.1007-1013, pl. 44-45  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.127  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 6047, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6047 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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