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cn coin 46

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CN Type 3987 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 411 to c. 386 BC

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Obverse
Die
Byz_0006_V6 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0006_R6 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
Siglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 19 mm / Min: 18 mm
Weight
5.40 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 347

Provenience: Chandon de Briailles 347

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 6, Paris

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 84, nr. 6  ❐

Le Rider, Deux trésors de monnaies grecques de la Propontide (IVe siècle avant J.-C.), Paris 1963 nr. Taf. 19,12  ❐

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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cn coin 46, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_46 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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