cn coin 1485

Connected to Type

CN Type 6016 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

4. c. BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_0941_V5 🔍

Design

Bull's head and neck, right, head slightly facing; a taenia suspended on his right horn.
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Reverse

Die

Byz_0941_R6 🔍

Legend

ΒΥ

Design

Ethnic surrounded by three dolphins swimming in counterclockwise direction.
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Metrology

Denomination

Byzantium: bull's head/dolphin-series, small 🔍

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

11 mm

Weight

1.92 g

Owner

Istanbul Arkeoloji, Müzeleri Müdurlügü, Istanbul, tr
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Owner Inventory No.: 333
Provenience: Sammlung Diojen

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: 941, Istanbul 333

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 130, nr. 941  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 130, nr. 936-945, pl. 39  ❐

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. 89, nr. 1423 (Denomination D, 4th c. BC)   ❐

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cn coin 1485, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1485 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/25]

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