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cn coin 5534

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CN Type 5859 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0617_V23 🔍
Legend
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Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0617_R27 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern with uneven surface.
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Metrology
Denomination
quarter-siglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 12 mm / Min: 11 mm
Weight
1.18 g
Owner

Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 863

Citation

Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Deutschland [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 2 Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 863, pl. 36, pic. 863  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 114, nr. 617, pl. 25, pic. 617 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 480 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 112-115, nr. 591-642, pl. 25-26 (Described as trihemobols 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. 1391 (Quarter Siglos, persian standard, dated 340-320 BC.)  ❐

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