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cn coin 1691

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CN Type 5992 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0802_V48 🔍
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_0802_R49 🔍
Design
Ornated trident head.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 12.5 mm / Min: 10.5 mm
Weight
1.83 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: M 6667

Provenience: Fonds général 329

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 802, Paris 1

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 124, nr. 802, pl. 34, pic. 802  ❐

Le Rider, Deux trésors de monnaies grecques de la Propontide (IVe siècle avant J.-C.), Paris 1963 pl. 19, pic. 11  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1538, pl. 148, pic. 7  ❐

Société française de numismatique, Revue numismatique: RN, 1838 pl. 7, pic. 6  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 124, nr. 799-814, pl. 34 (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 1691, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1691 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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