Strange coin

Hello All,

I hope you all are doing fine, I bought many new excellent coins lately, which I will post later.
Also bought this small silver coin, 2,3 grams size 1,1 cm.
Humm is it Phoenician? or from Ephesus? it is a gazelle? horse? goat?
Difficult.
Anybody a clue.

Regards,

Gilbert

 

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Byzantium with cow - search also Byzantium and heifer.

 

Dear Doug,

Great I had no clue, any idea about value?

Byzantion, Thrace, c. 357 - 340 B.C.
19448. Silver hemidrachm, SGCV I 1582, aEF, Byzantion mint, 2.521g, 13.3mm, 357 - 340 B.C.; obverse cow standing left on dolphin, ΠΥ above (the first letter is an archaic form of "B" used at Byzantium); reverse incuse square of mill-sail pattern, punched surfaces textured with dots

 

cow surfing on a dolphin...an awesome design. several members have one of these..

i'm not one of them.

here is a thread featuring several.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/cowabunga-surfs-up.235825/

 

THRACE BYZANTION AR HEMIDRACHM
C. 340-320 BC
Diameter: 14mm
Weight: 2.48 grams
Obverse: Cow standing left on dolphin
Reverse: Incuse 'mill sail' punch
Reference: SNG BM 36-41



=> COWABUNGA, DUDE!!

 

Cowabunga Dude! Get it Cow.....like a surfer....Whatevers....

 

Is it known what the significance of a cow on a dolphin is? What does it mean?

 

"Svoronos has suggested (Ephemeris, 1899; N. C., 1890, 332) that the obv. type may represent Io in cow-form crossing the Bosporus, symbolized by the Dolphin." copied from http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/thrace.html who copied it from Head page 268 of Historia Numorum.

 

=> good ol' ancient Surf-n-Turf

 

Thank you @dougsmit for the information and thank you @stevex6 for the laugh!