cn coin 52933
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cn coin 52933

Connected to Type

CN Type 3987 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 411 to c. 386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
Siglos 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
5.22 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Künker 46 (09.03.1999) 43.

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)  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 52933, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_52933 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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