cn type 5956

Edition

cn.byzantium.1_ed.45

Mint

Byzantion 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΒΥ

Design

Bull standing left on dolphin, raising right forehoof.
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Monogram

(position: top left)

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square with dotted ground.
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Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 120, nr. 738, pl. 32 (Rhodian standard.) ❐

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. 1387 (Chian standard.) ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.45 🔍

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