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cn coin 102

Connected to Type
CN Type 3987 🔍
Mint
Byzantion 🔍
Region: Thrace
Date
c. 411-387/386 BC
Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Byz_0050_V44 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0050_R50 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
Siglos 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
Max: 19 mm / Min: 17 mm
Weight
5.39 g
Owner
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at  
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Owner Inventory No.: 35745
Provenience: Sammlung Trau
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: 50, Wien
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 85, nr. 50, pl. 3, pic. 50 
Schönert-Geiß, Der Io-Mythos auf den Silbermünzen von Byzanz 6, 1966 pl. 1, pic. 2 
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 83-91, nr. 1-234, pl. 1-12 (Described as drachms in the Persian weight standard, dated 411-387 / 86 BC.)   
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. 80, nr. 1389 (dated ca. 340-320 BC)   
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cn coin 102, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_102 [Last downloaded: 2024/11/02]
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