Byzantion, Hemisiglos (CN type 3314)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 411-387/386 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceHemisiglos in silver struck at Byzantion in Thrace dated ca. 411-387/386 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 3314. Obverse: Bull standing left on dolphin, raising right forehoof. Reverse: Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver
- Denomination
- Hemisiglos
- Recorded diameter
- 10–16 mm (from 117 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 2.39 g (mean of 128 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Byzantion
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Weight standard
- Persian
Design
- Obverse type
- Bull standing left on dolphin, raising right forehoof.
- Reverse type
- Incuse square of mill-sail pattern, roughened or dotted ground.
- Obverse legend
- ΒΥ
Identification
- Period
- Classical Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/3314
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 3314
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 91-112, nr. 236-590, pl. 13-24
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 80, nr. 1390
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution