cn coin 3402

Connected to Type

CN Type 6016 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

4. c. BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_0936_V1 🔍

Design

Bull's head and neck, right, head slightly facing; a taenia suspended on his right horn.
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Reverse

Die

Byz_0937_R2 🔍

Legend

ΒΥ

Design

Ethnic surrounded by three dolphins swimming in counterclockwise direction.
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Metrology

Denomination

Byzantium: bull's head/dolphin-series, small 🔍

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

11 mm

Weight

1.77 g

Axis

6

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18234802
Provenience: Kartelle Fox: From Wigan Collection 1872.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 130, nr. 937, pl. 39, pic. 937  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 146, nr. 45  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 130, nr. 936-945, pl. 39  ❐

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. 89, nr. 1423 (Denomination D, 4th c. BC)   ❐

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cn coin 3402, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3402 [Last downloaded: 2025/04/27]

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