cn coin 1297
cn coin 1297-0
cn coin 1297-1
Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 1297

Connected to Type

CN Type 3314 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0270_V26 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
go to the NLP result of this description
Reverse
Die
Byz_0270_R34 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
go to the NLP result of this description
Metrology
Denomination
Hemisiglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
13 mm
Weight
2.47 g
Owner

Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, bg ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 270, Sofia

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 94, nr. 270, pl. 14, pic. 270  ❐

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.)  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 1297, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1297 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us