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cn coin 1469

Connected to Type

CN Type 6013 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

4. c. BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0919_V3 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull's head and neck, left, head slightly facing. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0919_R3 🔍
Design
Ornated trident head.
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Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: bull's head/trident-series, small 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
12 mm
Weight
1.30 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 334

Provenience: Fonds général 334

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 919, Paris 334

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 129, nr. 919, pl. 39, pic. 919  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1542, pl. 148, pic. 11  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 129, nr. 917-922, pl. 39 ❐

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. 1422 (Denomination D, 4th c. BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 1469, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1469 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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