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cn coin 90

Connected to Type

CN Type 3987 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_0034_V31 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, left, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_0034_R34 🔍
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
Siglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 18 mm / Min: 16 mm
Weight
5.24 g
Owner

Pozzi, Paris, fr

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: XXXVII, 1127

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 34, Pozzi XXXVII, 1127

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 84, nr. 34, pl. 2, pic. 34  ❐

Glendining & Co., Sammlung R. C. Lockett 2, London 1958 pl. 4, pic. 1090  ❐

o. A., Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. The Lockett Collection 3/2. Sicily-Thrace (Gold and Silver), Oxford 1957 p. 23, nr. 1174  ❐

Naville, Sammlung S. Pozzi 1, Genua 1920 pl. 37, pic. 1127  ❐

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)  ❐

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