cn type 6180
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cn type 6180

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
ΒΥΖΑ ΠΥΘΟ
Design
Persons

Magistrate: Pytho... 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: Poseidon/prow-series, small 🔍
Material
Diameter
Max: 17 mm / Min: 16 mm
Average Weight
3.04 g (3x)
Axes
1 (1x) 2 (1x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 146, nr. 1249-1250, pl. 59 

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. 88, nr. 1421  (Denomination C, 2nd c. BC) 

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.97  🔍

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cn type 6180, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6180 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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