cn type 5984

Edition

cn.byzantium.1_ed.54

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 387/386-340/339 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΒΥ

Design

Forepart of a bull standing left on dolphin, raising right forehoof.
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Monogram

(position: at the bottom left)

Reverse

Design

Ornated trident head.
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Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

11 mm (1x)

Average Weight

1.80 g (1x)

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Autonome Zeit, Berlin 1970 p. 122, nr. 770-771, pl. 33  (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. 1388 (Chian standard.)   ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.54 🔍

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