cn coin 6129

Connected to Type

CN Type 6274 🔍

League  ❐

Mint

Chersonesus Thracica 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 357-320 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Forepart of a prancing lion, right, head left.

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square; two divisions raised.

Symbol

dot / pellet (position: top left)
ivy leaf (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

12 mm

Weight

2.42 g

Axis

6

Owner

The Princeton University Numismatic Collection, Princeton, us  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: Issue 4681
Provenience: coll. Firestone; Princeton University Museum, Princeton, 1/1/2004 No.: 55-285\r\nOn permanent loan; bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895

Literature

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

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 183, nr. 5  ❐

van Alfen, The Thrace (?), c. 1955 Hoard (IGCH 738) 38, New York 2018 p. 28, nr. 4-5, annot. Group II  ❐

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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cn coin 6129, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6129 [Last downloaded: 2023/09/22]

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