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cn coin 1648

Connected to Type

CN Type 5915 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0709_V50 🔍
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_0709_R60 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
21.5 mm
Weight
14.34 g
Owner

Unknown, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Fox

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 709, Berlin 142,3, Fox

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 119, nr. 709, pl. 30, pic. 709  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 142, nr. 3  ❐

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 1648, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1648 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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