cn coin 1655
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cn coin 1655

Connected to Type

CN Type 5957 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0739_V25 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, monogram.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0739_R28 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
3.80 g
Owner

Unknown, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 739, Lisch 289

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 121, nr. 739, pl. 32, pic. 739  ❐

Lischine, Collection C. N. Lischine, Monnaies greques. Thrace, Macon 1902, 1902 pl. 5, pic. 289  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 121, nr. 739-740.744-745, 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 1655, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1655 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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