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cn coin 3400

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CN Type 6014 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

4. c. BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0928_V6 🔍
Design
Bull's head and neck, left, head slightly facing; a taenia suspended on right horn.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0928_R5 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΥ
Design
Ethnic surrounded by three dolphins swimming in counterclockwise direction.
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Metrology
Denomination
Byzantium: bull's head/dolphin-series, large 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
13 mm
Weight
2.04 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18234800

Citation

Prokesch-Osten, Autonome thrakische Münzen der Sammlung Prokesch-Osten 4, 1872 p. 198, nr. 12  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 146, nr. 44  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 130, nr. 928, pl. 39, pic. 928  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 130, nr. 923-935, pl. 39 ❐

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. 89, nr. 1423 (Denomination D, 4th c. BC)  ❐

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cn coin 3400, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3400 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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