cn type 6170
cn type 6170-0
cn type 6170-1
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cn type 6170

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Laureate head of Apollo, left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ ΕΠΙ ΜΑΤΡΙΚΩΝ
Design
Obelisk on an omphalos.
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Persons

Magistrate: Matrikon 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Apollo/obelisk-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26 mm / Min: 21 mm
Average Weight
6.60 g (3x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 145, nr. 1229-1232, pl. 57  ❐

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. 1413  (Denomination A/B)  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.86  🔍

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cn type 6170, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6170 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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