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cn coin 1479

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CN Type 6014 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

4. c. BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0933_V11 🔍
Design
Bull's head and neck, left, head slightly facing; a taenia suspended on right horn.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0933_R10 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ
Design
Ethnic surrounded by three dolphins swimming in counterclockwise direction.
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Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: bull's head/dolphin-series, large 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 13.5 mm / Min: 12.5 mm
Weight
2.05 g
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 933, London 217

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 130, nr. 933, pl. 39, pic. 933  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 95, nr. 29  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 130, nr. 923-935, 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. 89, nr. 1423 (Denomination D, 4th c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 1479, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1479 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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