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cn coin 1420

Connected to Type

CN Type 5951 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0715_V4 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, trident.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0715_R4 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern with dotted surface.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 16 mm / Min: 14 mm
Weight
3.55 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: 715, Yale 2

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 119, nr. 715, pl. 31, pic. 715  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 119-120, nr. 712-730, pl. 31 (Rhodian standard.)  ❐

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. 1387 (Chian standard.)  ❐

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cn coin 1420, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1420 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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