cn coin 1410

Connected to Type

CN Type 6006 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 394-386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Die

Byz_0856_V1 🔍

Legend

Σ-Υ//Ν

Design

Nude infant Heracles kneeling right, seen from front, strangling a serpent in each hand. Linear border.
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Reverse

Die

Byz_0856_R1 🔍

Legend

ΒΥ

Design

Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Metrology

Denomination

Tridrachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

22 mm

Weight

11.29 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 856, Boston 799

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 126, nr. 856, pl. 35, pic. 856 ❐

Nevskaja, Byzanz in der klassischen und hellenistischen Epoche, Leipzig 1955 p. 48-9, nr. 2 ❐

Head, Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics, Oxford 1911 nr. 267 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1537, pl. 148, pic. 6 ❐

Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 pl. 12, pic. 486 ❐

Regling, Ein Tridrachmon von Byzantion 25, 1906 p. 208, pl. 7, pic. 1 ❐

Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk, Berlin 1924 pl. 34, pic. 711 ❐

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 pl. 44, pic. 799 ❐

Literature