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cn coin 172

Connected to Type
CN Type 3987 🔍
Mint
Byzantion 🔍
Region: Thrace
Date
c. 411-387/386 BC
Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Byz_0191_V167 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0191_R182 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
Siglos 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
5.10 g
Owner
Nomismatiko Mouseio, Athen, gr  
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Owner Inventory No.: 1
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: 191, Athen 1
Findspot
Thracia, gr [gr]
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 90, nr. 191, pl. 10, pic. 191 
o. A., Chronique des fouilles en Grèce en 1955 (pl. VI-VIII) 80, 1956 p. 228, nr. e 
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 172, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_172 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/15]
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