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cn coin 1621

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CN Type 5892 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0671_V19 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ; mon. Φ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, monogram.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0671_R22 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 24 mm / Min: 21 mm
Weight
14.32 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: L 3200

Provenience: Fonds général 326

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 671, Paris 326

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 117, nr. 671, pl. 28, pic. 671  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1532, pl. 147, pic. 15  ❐

Le Rider, Deux trésors de monnaies grecques de la Propontide (IVe siècle avant J.-C.), Paris 1963 pl. 19, pic. 8  ❐

Société française de numismatique, Revue numismatique: RN, 1838 p. 469, pl. 9, pic. 26  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 117, nr. 670-674, pl. 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 1621, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1621 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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