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cn type 6209

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Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

3. c. BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Poseidon, right, wearing taenia.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΥΖΑΝ ΚΑΛΧΑ
Design
Athena Promachos standing right.
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Metrology
Denomination
ByzKalch: Poseidon/Athena-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26 mm / Min: 24 mm
Average Weight
8.89 g (5x)
Axes
11 (1x) 12 (1x)
Public Commentary

Alliance coinage of Byzantion and Calchedon.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 150, nr. 1296-1300, pl. 62  ❐

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. 1429  (Denomination B)  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.107  🔍

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cn type 6209, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6209 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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