cn coin 5975
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cn coin 5975

Connected to Type

CN Type 5952 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0731_V17 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, monogram.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0731z_R20z 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern with dotted surface.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 15 mm / Min: 14 mm
Weight
3.62 g
Owner

W.M. Stancomb, Devizes, gb

Provenience: JNFA 1976, 46.

Public Commentary

date by W. Stancomb: c. 416-357 BC

Citation

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 1  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 120, nr. 731, pl. 32, pic. 731 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 120, nr. 731-732, pl. 32 (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. 1387 (Chian standard.)  ❐

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cn coin 5975, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5975 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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