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cn coin 1487

Connected to Type

CN Type 6016 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

4. c. BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0943_V7 🔍
Design
Bull's head and neck, right, head slightly facing; a taenia suspended on his right horn.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0943_R8 🔍
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, small 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
11 mm
Weight
1.48 g
Owner

Istanbul Arkeoloji, Müzeleri Müdurlügü, Istanbul, tr

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 334

Provenience: Sammlung Diojen

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 943, Istanbul 334

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 130, nr. 943, pl. 39, pic. 943  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 130, nr. 936-945, 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 1487, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1487 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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