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

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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