cn coin 1638
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cn coin 1638

Connected to Type

CN Type 5911 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0698_V38 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, monogram.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0698_R49 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
14.85 g
Owner

Koninklijk Kabinet van Munten, Penningen en Gesneden Stenen - Den Haag / Nationale Numismatische Collectie - Amsterdam, Amsterdam, nl ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 1979

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 698, Haag 1979

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 118, nr. 698, pl. 29, pic. 698  ❐

Walcher von Molthein, Catalogue de la collection des médailles grecques, Paris 1895 pl. 6, pic. 812  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 118, nr. 698-700 (Rhodian sandard.)  ❐

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 1638, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1638 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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