cn coin 27898

Connected to Type

CN Type 6278 🔍

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) blossom (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Persian

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

1.92 g

Owner

Gosudarstvennyj Muzej Izobrazitelnych Iskusstv imeni A.S. Puškina, Moskau, ru ❐

Owner Inventory No.: Moskau_CYC-A 978

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: CHER_3R_66_023o/r

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 p. 29, nr. 12, annot. Group VI (Flower with question mark, looks more like a wreath on the cited coin ANS 1956.140.10.) ❐

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 27898, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27898 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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