cn coin 1635
cn coin 1635-0
cn coin 1635-1
Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 1635

Connected to Type

CN Type 5905 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0693_V36 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, monogram.
go to the NLP result of this description
Reverse
Die
Byz_0693_R44 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
go to the NLP result of this description
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
14.69 g
Owner

Nationalmuseet, Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, Kopenhagen, dk ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 693, SNG Kop 482

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 118, nr. 693, pl. 29, pic. 693  ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen p. 9, nr. 482  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 118, nr. 693-697 (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.)  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 1635, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1635 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us