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cn coin 1624

Connected to Type

CN Type 5897 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0677_V25 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, monogram.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0677_R28 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20 mm / Min: 18.5 mm
Weight
14.89 g
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 677, London 119

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 117, nr. 677, pl. 28, pic. 677  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 94, nr. 12  ❐

Head, Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics, Oxford 1911 p. 267, pic. 165  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1533  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 117, nr. 677-680 (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 1624, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1624 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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