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cn coin 1399

Connected to Type

CN Type 5859 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0642_V47 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0642_R52 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern with uneven surface.
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Metrology
Denomination
quarter-siglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
9.5 mm
Weight
0.96 g
Axis
12
Owner

Nomismatiko Mouseio, Athen, gr ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Stamules

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 642, Stamules 102

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 115, nr. 642, pl. 26, pic. 642  ❐

Oikonomos and Varoucha-Christodoulopoulos, Νομισματική Συλλογή Αναστασίου Σταμούλη, Athen 1955 nr. 102  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 112-115, nr. 591-642, pl. 25-26 (Described as trihemobols 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. 1391 (Quarter Siglos, persian standard, dated 340-320 BC.)  ❐

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