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cn coin 1694

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CN Type 5992 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0810_V53 🔍
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_0810_R56 🔍
Design
Ornated trident head.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
9 mm
Weight
1.48 g
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 810, London 145

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 124, nr. 810, pl. 34, pic. 810  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 94, nr. 24  ❐

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 1694, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1694 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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