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cn coin 48689

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CN Type 5912 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
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Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, raising right forehoof.
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Monogram
Monogram obverse (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
14.85 g
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1966.75.54

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 118, nr. 701-702 (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 48689, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_48689 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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