cn coin 5990

Obverse

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

Reverse

Design: Quadripartite incuse square; two opposing quarters more deeply sunk and one containing a pellet and below, an X, the other a lizard upwards.

Symbol: dot / pellet (position: top left)
Χ (position: top left)
lizard (position: at the bottom left)

Metrology

Owner: The Princeton University Numismatic Collection, Princeton, us ❐
Owner Inventory No.: Issue 4680
Provenience: Coll. Firestone; Princeton University Museum, Princeton, 1/1/2004 No.: 55-287\r\nOn permanent loan; bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895.

Literature: Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 186, nr. 51 ❐

Sear, Greek Coins and their Values, London 1994 nr. 1349 ❐

Tzvetkova, The war over the Chersonese. Zur Chronologie und Periodisierung des athenisch-odrysischen Konflikts um die thrakische Chersones, Αθήνα 2007 p. 17-31 ❐

Minkova et al., Numismatic collection of the Regional Museum of history Stara Zagora (ancient Augusta Traiana): Thracian, Macedonian, Greek and Roman republican coins from 6th to 1st century BC, Stara Zagora 2019 (I. Tzvetkova, The hemidrachms of the Thracian Chersonese: a classification approach, 33-55) ❐

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