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cn coin 1666

Connected to Type

CN Type 5978 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0758_V7 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΥΒ
Design
Forepart of a bull standing right on dolphin, right, raising left forehoof; below, monogram.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0758_R8 🔍
Design
Ornated trident head.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 12 mm / Min: 11 mm
Weight
1.83 g
Owner

Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room, Oxford, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 758, OXF 10

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 122, nr. 758, pl. 33, pic. 758  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 122, nr. 755-763, pl. 33 (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. 1388 (Chian standard.)  ❐

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cn coin 1666, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1666 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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