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cn coin 1440

Connected to Type

CN Type 6007 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

4. c. BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0883_V11 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0883_R11 🔍
Design
Ornated trident head between two dolphins swimming upwards.
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Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: bull/trident-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
4.38 g
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 883, London 215

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 128, nr. 883, pl. 37, pic. 883  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 128-129, nr. 871-913, pl. 37-38 ❐

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. 88, nr. 1419 (Denomination C, 4th c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 1440, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1440 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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