cn coin 5988

Mint

Chersonesus Thracica 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 480-350 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Forepart of a prancing lion, right, head left, forepaws raised and with open jaws.

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square; two opposing quarters more deeply sunk and one containing a pellet.

Metrology

Denomination

Tetrobol 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

14 mm

Weight

2.36 g

Axis

5

Owner

The Princeton University Numismatic Collection, Princeton, us  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: Issue 453
Provenience: Coll. Firestone; Anonymous Class of \'64, Princeton class of 1964, 12/18/2002.

Public Commentary

Cannot be assigned to a type as one symbol on the reverse is indistinct.

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 185, nr. 34  ❐

Sear, Greek Coins and their Values, London 1994 nr. 1602  ❐

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cn coin 5988, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5988 [Last downloaded: 2023/09/22]

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