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cn type 5955

Edition
cn.byzantium.1_ed.44
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
Monogram obverse (position: at the bottom left)
Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with dotted ground.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 120, nr. 737, 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.44 🔍
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cn type 5955, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/cn.byzantium.1_ed.44 [Last downloaded: 2024/12/14]
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