cn type 5968

Edition

cn.byzantium.1_ed.48

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 🔍 ❐

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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