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cn coin 1330

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CN Type 3314 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0378_V119 🔍
Legend
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Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0378_R140 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemisiglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
2.28 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 311

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 378, Paris 311

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 100, nr. 378, pl. 17, pic. 378  (Weight and diameter are not right here, plaster cast reversed?)  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 nr. 1535, pl. 148, pic. 4  ❐

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 1330, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1330 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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