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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
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
Reverse
Die
Byz_0160_R152 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍 ❐
Material
silver  🔍 ❐
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
5.4 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 ❐
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 ❐
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cn coin 159, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_159 [Last downloaded: 2022/08/19]
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