cn coin 68812

Connected to Type

CN Type 6277 🔍

League  ❐

Mint

Chersonesus Thracica 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 357-320 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Forepart of a prancing lion, right, head left.
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Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square; two opposite squares lower.
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Symbol

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

Pecularities

chisel cut; plated

Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

13 mm

Weight

2.56 g

Axis

6

Owner

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: M 1052
Provenience: G 54/12 (Welz 1966; ex Platt [15.11.1957])

Literature

van Alfen, The Thrace (?), c. 1955 Hoard (IGCH 738) 38, New York 2018 p. 29, nr. 11, annot. Group V  ❐

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)   ❐

Web Reference: https://mk-bochum.ikmk.net/object?id=ID1794  ❐

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cn coin 68812, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_68812 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/07]

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