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cn type 6006

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 394 to 386 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
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Design
Nude infant Heracles kneeling right, strangling a serpent in each hand.
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Reverse
Legend
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Design
Bull standing left on dolphin, raising right forehoof.
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Metrology
Denomination
Tridrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
22 mm (1x)
Average Weight
11.29 g (1x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 126, nr. 856, pl. 35, pic. 856  ❐

Nevskaja, Byzanz in der klassischen und hellenistischen Epoche, Leipzig 1955 p. 48-9, nr. 2  ❐

Head, Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics, Oxford 1911 nr. 267  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1537, pl. 148, pic. 6  ❐

Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 pl. 12, pic. 486  ❐

Regling, Ein Tridrachmon von Byzantion 25, 1906 p. 208, pl. 7, pic. 1  ❐

Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk, Berlin 1924 pl. 34, pic. 711  ❐

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 pl. 44, pic. 799  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.17  🔍

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cn type 6006, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6006 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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