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cn type 5859

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Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΒΥ
Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, raising right forehoof.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
quarter-siglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 12.5 mm / Min: 9 mm
Average Weight
1.12 g (53x)
Axes
12 (8x)
Citation

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.)  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.4  🔍

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cn type 5859, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5859 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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