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cn coin 1355

Connected to Type

CN Type 3314 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0514_V241 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0514_R272 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemisiglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 13 mm / Min: 12 mm
Weight
2.42 g
Owner

Yale University Art Gallery, Coins and Medals, New Haven, us ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 514, Yale 5

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 108, nr. 514, pl. 22, pic. 514  ❐

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 1355, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1355 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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