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cn coin 37030

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CN Type 3314 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC

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Obverse
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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
Hemisiglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
12.5 mm
Weight
2.33 g
Owner

Tekirdağ, Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Müzesi, Tekirdağ, tr

Owner Inventory No.: Y-687

Citation

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 p. 82, nr. 609, pl. XXXXV  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 91-112, nr. 236-590, pl. 13-24 (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. 1390 (Halfsiglos in the persian standard, dated 340-320 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 37030, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_37030 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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