cn coin 11797

Connected to Type

CN Type 19869 🔍

Coinage

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: ) Wreathed pileus (position: )

Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Persian

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

2.08 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Provenience: Fonds général 1553

Literature

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 1, Cambridge 1923 nr. 4078 ❐

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 11797, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11797 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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