cn coin 1637
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cn coin 1637

Connected to Type

CN Type 5905 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0696_V38 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, monogram.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0696_R47 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 22.8 mm / Min: 20 mm
Weight
14.01 g
Owner

Münzkabinett und Antikensammlung der Stadt Winterthur, Winterthur, ch ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 1178

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 696, W1178

Citation

Bloesch, Griechische Münzen in Winterthur, Winterthur 1987 p. 110, nr. 1178, pl. 51, pic. 1178  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 118, nr. 696, pl. 29, pic. 696  ❐

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.)  ❐

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cn coin 1637, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1637 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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