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cn coin 11858

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CN Type 6452 🔍

Mint
Chersonesus Thracica 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 478-466 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Lion leaping right; head backwards.
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Reverse
Design
Head of Athena, left, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: heavy Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
16.55 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1966.453

Provenience: Jean et Marie Delepierre 812

Citation

Nicolet, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des médailles, Collection Jean et Marie Delepierre, Paris 1983 nr. 812  ❐

Literature

Sheedy and Davis, Gillan, Miltiades II and his alleged mint in the Chersonesos 68, 2019 p. 11-25 (Minted on the heavy persian standard in Kardia around 478-466 BC.)  ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 94, nr. 1432 (tetradrachm, 515-493 BC)  ❐

van Alfen, Ambiguities in Monetary Authority: the Archaic Coinages of the Thracian Chersones 77, Berlin p. 151f., nr. 30-34 (Stater)  ❐

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 17-31 (Period I, 515-493 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 11858, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11858 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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