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cn coin 163

Connected to Type
CN Type 3987 🔍
Mint
Byzantion 🔍
Region: Thrace
Date
c. 411-387/386 BC 
Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Byz_0167_V145 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0167_R159 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
Siglos 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
Max: 17 mm / Min: 16 mm
Weight
5.31 g
Owner
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  
Owner Inventory No.: 312
Provenience: Fonds général 312; Ex coll. Pellerin 1776
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: 167, Paris 312
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 89, nr. 167, pl. 8, pic. 167 
Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 p. 1531, pl. 147, pic. 11 
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 163, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_163 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/25]
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