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cn coin 1645

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CN Type 5915 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0707_V48 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
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_0707_R58 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
15.15 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 325

Provenience: Waddington; Fonds général 325; Waddington 7196

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 707, Paris 325

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 119, nr. 707, pl. 30, pic. 707  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1533, pl. 148, pic. 2  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 119, nr. 707-709 (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 1645, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1645 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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