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cn coin 37031

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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
Legend
ΒΥ
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
16.5 mm
Weight
3.26 g
Owner

Tekirdağ, Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Müzesi, Tekirdağ, tr

Owner Inventory No.: Y-688

Citation

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 p. 82, nr. 608, pl. XXXXV  ❐

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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cn coin 37031, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_37031 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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