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cn type 6178

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Poseidon, left, wearing taenia; behind him trident.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΥ ΕΠΙ ΜΑΤΡ
Design
Prow, left.
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Persons

Magistrate: Matrikon 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Poseidon/prow-series, large 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
21 mm (4x)
Average Weight
7.56 g (4x)
Axes
7 (1x) 12 (2x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 146, nr. 1244-1248, pl. 58  ❐

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. 1416  (Denomination B)  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.96  🔍

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cn type 6178, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6178 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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