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cn coin 123

Connected to Type
CN Type 3987 🔍
Mint
Byzantion 🔍
Region: Thrace
Date
Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Byz_0086_V74 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0086_R81 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
Siglos 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
Max: 16 mm / Min: 15 mm
Weight
5.21 g
Owner
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  
Owner Inventory No.: 315
Provenience: Fonds général 315
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: 86, Paris 227
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 86, nr. 86, pl. 4, pic. 86 
Mionnet, T.2. Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales T. 2, Paris 1807 p. 497, nr. 473 
Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 nr. 1531, pl. 147, pic. 13 
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 123, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_123 [Last downloaded: 2025/03/22]
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