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cn coin 1856

Connected to Type

CN Type 5859 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0623_V28 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0623_R33 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
quarter-siglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
11 mm
Weight
1.30 g
Owner

Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Warschau, pl ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 55 228

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Warschau XXV, 267

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 114, nr. 623, pl. 25, pic. 623  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 112-115, nr. 591-642, pl. 25-26 (Described as trihemobols in the Persian weight standard, dated 411-387/86 BC.)  ❐

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. 1391 (Quarter Siglos, persian standard, dated 340-320 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 1856, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1856 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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