cn coin 1643
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cn coin 1643

Connected to Type

CN Type 5914 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0705_V46 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ; mon. Φ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, monogram in a wreath bound at bottom.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0705_R56 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
21.5 mm
Weight
15.18 g
Axis
12
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 705, Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean Collection

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 119, nr. 705, pl. 29, pic. 705  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 1, Cambridge 1923 p. 145, nr. 4236, pl. 153, pic. 3  ❐

Sotheby, Sammlung Frank Sherman Benson/Brooklyn-New York, London 3. Februar 1909, London 1909-02-03 pl. 16, pic. 466  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 119, nr. 704-706 (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 1643, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1643 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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