cn coin 48693

Connected to Type

CN Type 5980 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΒΥ

Design

Forepart of a bull standing left on dolphin, raising right forehoof.
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Monogram

(position: at the bottom left)

Reverse

Design

Ornated trident head.
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Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

1.91 g

Axis

Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.15604

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 122, nr. 764-765, pl. 33 (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. 1388 (Chian standard.) ❐

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cn coin 48693, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_48693 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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