cn coin 11832

Mint

Chersonesus Thracica 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

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

Bee (position: top left)

Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Persian

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

2.44 g

Owner

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

Provenience: Fonds général 1589

Public Commentary

Can not be assigned to a type because symbol in the 2nd square is not visible.

Literature

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

van Alfen, The Thrace (?), c. 1955 Hoard (IGCH 738) 38, New York 2018 ❐

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cn coin 11832, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11832 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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