cn type 12409

Edition

cn.byzantium.1_ed.3

Mint

Byzantion 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 411-387/386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΒΥ

Design

Bull standing right on dolphin, right, 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

Hemisiglos 🔍
Standard: Persian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

13 mm (1x)

Average Weight

2.25 g (1x)

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 112, nr. 590, pl. 24, pic. 590 (Hemidrachm in persic standard, dated c. 411-387/386 BC.) ❐

Lederer, Neue Beiträge zur antiken Münzkunde 30, 1943 p. 25, nr. 13, pl. 1 ❐

Literature

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. 1390 (Hemisiglos in persic standard, dated 340-320 BC.) ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.3 🔍

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cn type 12409, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/cn.byzantium.1_ed.3 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/20]