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cn coin 1457

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CN Type 6007 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

4. c. BC

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Obverse
Die
Byz_0905_V33 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0905_R31 🔍
Design
Ornated trident head between two dolphins swimming upwards.
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Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: bull/trident-series 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 17 mm / Min: 15 mm
Weight
3.33 g
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 905, London 216

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 129, nr. 905, pl. 38, pic. 905  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 95, nr. 28  ❐

Literature

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1541 ❐

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 1457, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1457 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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