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cn coin 3378

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CN Type 5877 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0643_V1 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Forepart of a bull lying left, right forehoof slightly raised. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0643_R1 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern with uneven surface.
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Metrology
Denomination
1/8 siglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
8 mm
Weight
0.38 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18234735

Provenience: 'Von Herrn Giel, Petersburg.'

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 115, nr. 643, pl. 26, pic. 643  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 115, nr. 642-649, pl. 26 (dated c. 411- c. 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. 81, nr. 1392 (dated c. 340-320 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 3378, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3378 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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