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cn type 5878

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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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 25 mm / Min: 19 mm
Average Weight
14.73 g (7x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 116, nr. 650-658, pl. 27  (Rhodian standard, c. 387/386-340/339 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. 79, nr. 1386  (Chian standard, c. 387/386-340 BC.)  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.19  🔍

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cn type 5878, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5878 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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