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cn type 6205

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Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Veiled head of Demeter, right, wearing corn wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΥΖΑΝ ΚΑΛΧΑ
Design
Poseidon seated right on rock, holding aplustre and trident.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
ByzKalch: Demeter/Poseidon-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 29 mm / Min: 22 mm
Average Weight
8.86 g (4x)
Axes
12 (2x)
Public Commentary

Alliance coinage of Byzantion and Calchedon.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 149, nr. 1271-1275, pl. 60  ❐

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. 90, nr. 1428  (Denomination B)  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.103  🔍

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cn type 6205, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6205 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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