cn coin 68783

Connected to Type

CN Type 3314 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΒΥ

Design

Bull standing left on dolphin, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse

Design

Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology

Denomination

Hemisiglos 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

14 mm

Weight

2.41 g

Axis

11

Owner

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 1788
Provenience: G 54/6 (Welz 1966; ex Hess [04.10.1924])

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 91-112, nr. 236-590, pl. 13-24 (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. 1390 (Halfsiglos in the persian standard, dated 340-320 BC.)   ❐

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cn coin 68783, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_68783 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/09]

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