cn coin 47888

Connected to Type

CN Type 5905 🔍

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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Monogram

(position: at the bottom left)

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square with dotted ground.
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Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

15.27 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 191, 11./12. 10. 2010, lot 1166

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 118, nr. 693-697 (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. 79, nr. 1386 (Chian standard.) ❐

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cn coin 47888, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_47888 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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