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cn coin 151

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CN Type 3987 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0137_V115 🔍
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Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0137_R130 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
Siglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
5.17 g
Owner

Gosudarstvennyj Muzej Izobrazitelnych Iskusstv imeni A.S. Puškina, Moskau, ru ❐

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Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 137, Mosk. Pusch. 2

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 88, nr. 137, pl. 7, pic. 137  ❐

Orešnikov, Opisanie drevne-grečeskich monet, prinadležaščich Imperatorskomu Moskovskomu Universitetu, Moskva 1891 p. 7, nr. 67  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 83-91, nr. 1-234, pl. 1-12 (Described as drachms in the Persian weight standard, dated 411-387 / 86 BC.)  ❐

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. 80, nr. 1389 (dated ca. 340-320 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 151, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_151 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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