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cn coin 92

Connected to Type
CN Type 3987 🔍
Mint
Byzantion 🔍
Region: Thrace
Date
c. 411-387/386 BC
Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Byz_0030_V29 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
Reverse
Die
Byz_0030_R30 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
Metrology
Denomination
Siglos 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
17 mm
Weight
5.3 g
Owner
Istanbul Arkeoloji, Müzeleri Müdurlügü, Istanbul, tr
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Owner Inventory No.: 262
Provenience: Sammlung Diojen
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: 39, Istanbul 262
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 85, nr. 39, pl. 2, pic. 39 
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 92, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_92 [Last downloaded: 2023/10/02]
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