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cn coin 3363

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CN Type 5878 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

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Obverse
Die
Byz_0655_V6 🔍
Legend
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Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
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Byz_0655_R6 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
14.78 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18234633

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 116, nr. 655, pl. 27, pic. 655  ❐

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 197, nr. 1  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 142, nr. 2  ❐

Regling, Nordgriechische Münzen der Blütezeit, Berlin 1923 pl. 12, pic. 110  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 116, nr. 650-658, pl. 27 (Rhodian standard, c. 387/386-340/339 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. 79, nr. 1386 (Chian standard, c. 387/386-340 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 3363, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3363 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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