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cn coin 1429

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CN Type 5951 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0729_V16 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, ornated trident.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0729_R18 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern with dotted surface.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm
Weight
3.25 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 729, London 121

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 120, nr. 729, pl. 31, pic. 729  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1534  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 94, nr. 14  ❐

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 1429, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1429 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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