cn coin 1653
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cn coin 1653

Connected to Type

CN Type 5953 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0734_V20 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ; mon. Φ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, monogram.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0734_R23 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 17 mm / Min: 15 mm
Weight
3.59 g
Owner

LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur. Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 734, Münster 1

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 120, nr. 734, pl. 32, pic. 734  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 120, nr. 733-736, pl. 32 (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. 80, nr. 1387 (Chian standard.)  ❐

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cn coin 1653, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1653 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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