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cn coin 10106

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CN Type 6311 🔍

Coinage
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Chersonesus Thracica 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

357-323/320 BC

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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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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: top left)
Symbol
plough (position: at the bottom right) dot / pellet (position: top left)
Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Persian
Material
Diameter
14 mm
Weight
2.41 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18246247

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten - Vorbesitzer Prokesch von Osten

Public Commentary

Es ist anzunehmen, dass sich die kleine Kugel stets unter dem Monogramm befindet und nur bei einigen Exemplaren außerhalb des Schrötlings liegt. It can be assumed that the small pellet is always below the monogram and only in a few specimens is off the flan.

Literature

van Alfen, The Thrace (?), c. 1955 Hoard (IGCH 738) 38, New York 2018 p. 31, nr. 36-40, annot. Group XV (Wihtout mentioning the pellet.) 

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 10106, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10106 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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