cn coin 36666

Connected to Type

CN Type 3987 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 411 to c. 386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΒΥ

Design

Bull standing left on dolphin, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse

Legend

ΒΥ

Design

Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology

Denomination

Siglos 🔍
Standard: Persian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

17 mm

Weight

5.02 g

Owner

Archäologisches Museum Çanakkale, Çanakkale, tr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 3114

Citation

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 p. 118, nr. 971, pl. LIV ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 83-91, nr. 1-234, pl. 1-12 (Described as drachms in the Persian weight standard, dated 411-387 / 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. 80, nr. 1389 (dated ca. 340-320 BC) ❐

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