cn coin 1627
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cn coin 1627

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CN Type 5898 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

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Obverse
Die
Byz_0682_V30 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, monogram.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0682_R33 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
Diameter
Max: 23 mm / Min: 21 mm
Owner

Budapesti Történeti Múzeum, Budapest, hu

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 682, Budapest 1

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 118, nr. 682, pl. 28, pic. 682 

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 118, nr. 682-686 (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 1627, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1627 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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