cn coin 1628
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cn coin 1628

Connected to Type

CN Type 5898 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

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_0683_R34 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 22 mm / Min: 19 mm
Weight
14.94 g
Owner

Unknown, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 683, Pozzi 1921 XXXVII 1130

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 118, nr. 683, pl. 28, pic. 683  ❐

Naville, Sammlung S. Pozzi 1, Genua 1920 pl. 37, pic. 1130  ❐

o. A., Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. The Lockett Collection 3/2. Sicily-Thrace (Gold and Silver), Oxford 1957 p. 23, nr. 1176  ❐

Glendining & Co., Sammlung R. C. Lockett 2, London 1958 pl. 4, pic. 1092  ❐

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 1628, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1628 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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