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cn coin 36608

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CN Type 5987 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

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Obverse
Legend
ΒΥ
Design
Forepart of a bull standing left on dolphin, raising right forehoof.
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Monogram
Monogram obverse (position: at the bottom left)
Reverse
Design
Ornated trident head.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
10.5 mm
Weight
1.94 g
Axis
9
Owner

Coll. C.S. Okray, Ankara, tr

Owner Inventory No.: 509

Citation

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 p. 168, nr. 1451, pl. LXXVIII  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 123, nr. 773-775, pl. 33 (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. 1388 (Chian standard.)  ❐

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cn coin 36608, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_36608 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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