cn type 6121
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cn type 6121

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ΑΣΩΠΙΟΥ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Nude Poseidon standing facing, head left, with chlamys over left shoulder, holing Nike in his outstretched right hand and resting his left on trident.
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Persons

Magistrate: Asopios 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Dionysus/Poseidon-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 23 mm / Min: 19 mm
Average Weight
7.03 g (25x)
Axes
2 (1x) 12 (10x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 139-140, nr. 1103-1130, pl. 51-52  ❐

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. 1415  (Denomination A/B, 2nd c. BC)  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.71  🔍

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cn type 6121, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6121 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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