cn type 5968
cn type 5968-0
cn type 5968-1
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cn type 5968

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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Symbol
OB (position: at the bottom left)
Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 16.5 mm / Min: 13 mm
Average Weight
3.62 g (5x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 121, nr. 747-749, 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.48  🔍

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cn type 5968, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5968 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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