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cn coin 1618

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CN Type 5891 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0668_V17 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing right on dolphin, right, raising left forehoof.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0668_R19 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 23 mm / Min: 21 mm
Weight
15.16 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18234638

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 668, Imh

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 117, nr. 668, pl. 27, pic. 668  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 117, nr. 668-669, pl. 27-28 (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 1618, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1618 [Last downloaded: 2026/07/20]

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