cn coin 1623
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cn coin 1623

Connected to Type

CN Type 5893 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0675_V23 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, monogram.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0675_R26 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
14.48 g
Owner

Unknown, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 675, Hirsch 21 Kat. Weber 882

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 117, nr. 675, pl. 28, pic. 675  ❐

Hirsch, Auktionskatalog (Sammlung Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber/Hamburg) 21, München pl. 11, pic. 882  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 117, nr. 675 (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 1623, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1623 [Last downloaded: 2026/06/07]

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