cn coin 1614
cn coin 1614-0
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cn coin 1614

Connected to Type

CN Type 5882 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0661_V12 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, monogram.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0661_R12 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
20 mm
Weight
15.27 g
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 661, London 116

Findspot

Nisí Thásos (Thasos), gr [gr] ❐

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 116, nr. 661, pl. 27, pic. 661  ❐

Robinson, A find of coins of Thasos 14, 1934 pl. 4, pic. 5  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 116, nr. 661 (Rhodian standard.)  ❐

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. 79, nr. 1386 (Chian standard.)  ❐

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cn coin 1614, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1614 [Last downloaded: 2026/07/18]

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