cn type 8568

Edition

An edition has been created for this type.🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

2. half of 1. c. BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Laureate head of Apollo, right.
go to the NLP result of this description

Reverse

Legend

ΒΥΖΑΝ

Design

Lyre.
go to the NLP result of this description

Metrology

Denomination

unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 16 mm / Min: 14 mm

Average Weight

2.02 g (5x)

Axes

12 (1x)

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1772

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 131, nr. 1895-1897, pl. 113, pic. 1895-1897  ❐

Burnett et al., RPC I: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius: 44 BC-AD 69, London [u.a.] 1992 nr. 1772  ❐

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen p. 9, nr. 496  ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1772  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.220 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 8568, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/8568 [Last downloaded: 2026/01/20]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us