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cn coin 1646

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CN Type 5915 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0708_V49 🔍
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_0708_R59 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
14.83 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 323

Provenience: Fonds général 323

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 708, Paris 323

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 119, nr. 708, pl. 30, pic. 708  ❐

Mionnet, T.2. Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales T. 2, Paris 1807 p. 497, nr. 468  ❐

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

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.)  ❐

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cn coin 1646, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1646 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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