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cn coin 1677

Connected to Type

CN Type 5987 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0775_V22 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Forepart of a bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, monogram.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0775_R25 🔍
Design
Ornated trident head.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
10.5 mm
Weight
1.87 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 775, London 142

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 123, nr. 775, pl. 33, pic. 775  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 123, nr. 773-775, 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 1677, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1677 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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