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cn coin 165

Connected to Type

CN Type 3987 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0173_V151 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0173_R165 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Countermark
Bull advancing r., head facing, above Nike? (Schönert-Geiß); rectangular.
Metrology
Denomination
Siglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20 mm / Min: 17 mm
Weight
5.35 g
Owner

Unknown, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 173, Kress 123, 96

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 89, nr. 173, pl. 9, pic. 173  ❐

Kreß, Auktionskatalog 116, München 1960 pl. 1, pic. 237a  ❐

Kreß, Auktionskatalog 123, München 1962 p. 5, nr. 96  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 83-91, nr. 1-234, pl. 1-12 (Described as drachms in the Persian weight standard, dated 411-387 / 86 BC.)  ❐

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. 80, nr. 1389 (dated ca. 340-320 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 165, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_165 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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