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cn coin 123

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CN Type 3987 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

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Obverse
Die
Byz_0086_V74 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0086_R81 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
Siglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 16 mm / Min: 15 mm
Weight
5.21 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 315

Provenience: Fonds général 315

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 86, Paris 227

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 86, nr. 86, pl. 4, pic. 86  ❐

Mionnet, T.2. Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales T. 2, Paris 1807 p. 497, nr. 473  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 nr. 1531, pl. 147, pic. 13  ❐

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 123, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_123 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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