cn coin 36607

Connected to Type

CN Type 5968 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΒΥ

Design

Bull standing left on dolphin, raising right forehoof.
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Symbol

OB (position: at the bottom left)

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square with dotted ground.
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Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

16 mm

Weight

3.74 g

Owner

Coll. C.S. Okray, Ankara, tr

Owner Inventory No.: 508

Citation

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 p. 168, nr. 1450, pl. LXXVIII ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 121, nr. 747-749, pl. 32 (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. 1387 (Chian standard.) ❐

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