cn coin 120

Connected to Type

CN Type 3987 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_0077_V69 🔍

Legend

ΒΥ

Design

Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Controlmark

1x

Reverse

Die

Byz_0079_R76 🔍

Design

Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology

Denomination

Siglos 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

15 mm

Weight

5.39 g

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: 79, London 109

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 86, nr. 79, pl. 4, pic. 79  ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Beiträge zur Erklärung griechischer Münztypen 5, 1910 p. 93, nr. 7  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 93, nr. 6  ❐

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 120, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_120 [Last downloaded: 2025/03/23]

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