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cn coin 5979

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CN Type 5989 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0788z_V34z 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Forepart of a bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof; below, monogram.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0788_R36 🔍
Design
Ornated trident head.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 12.5 mm / Min: 12.1 mm
Weight
1.87 g
Axis
9
Owner

W.M. Stancomb, Devizes, gb

Public Commentary

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

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 123, nr. 788, pl. 34, pic. 788 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 123, nr. 780-795, pl. 33-34 (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 5979, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5979 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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