cn coin 68807

Connected to Type

CN Type 6007 🔍

Mint

Byzantion 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

4. c. BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΒΥ

Design

Bull standing left on dolphin, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse

Design

Trident head between two dolphins.
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Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

17 mm

Weight

4.54 g

Axis

Owner

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: M 1049

Provenience: G 54/9 (Welz 1966; ex Gaettens [11.02.1953])

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 128-129, nr. 871-913, pl. 37-38 ❐

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. 88, nr. 1419 (Denomination C, 4th c. BC) ❐

Web Reference: https://mk-bochum.ikmk.net/object?id=ID1791 ❐

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cn coin 68807, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_68807 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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