cn coin 159

Connected to Type

CN Type 3987 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_0160_V138 🔍

Legend

ΒΥ

Design

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

Die

Byz_0160_R152 🔍

Design

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

Denomination

Siglos 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

15 mm

Weight

5.40 g

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Owner Inventory No.: 103

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: 160, London 103

Findspot

Cilicia (Kilikien), tr [tr] ❐

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 89, nr. 160, pl. 8, pic. 160  ❐

Newell, A Cilican Find, 1914 p. 7, nr. 41  ❐

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 159, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_159 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/25]

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