Byzantion, Siglos (CN type 3987)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 411 bis ca. 386 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceSiglos in silver struck at Byzantion in Thrace dated ca. 411 bis ca. 386 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 3987. 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
- Siglos
- Recorded diameter
- 12–22 mm (from 205 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 5.15 g (mean of 222 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
- Recorded findspots
- Vize, Cilicia (Kilikien), Oxus, Thracia
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/3987
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 3987
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. 83-91, nr. 1-234, pl. 1-12
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 80, nr. 1389
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution