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cn coin 27902

Connected to Type

CN Type 6367 🔍

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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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: top left)
Symbol
corn-ear (position: at the bottom right) dot / pellet (position: top left)
Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
2.17 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: CYC-A 980

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: CHER_3R_66_025o/r

Public Commentary

Eine kleine Kugel über oder unter dem Monogramm befindet sich in einigen Exemplaren außerhalb des Schrötlings. Small pellet above or below the monogram is in a few specimens off the flan.

Literature

van Alfen, The Thrace (?), c. 1955 Hoard (IGCH 738) 38, New York 2018 p. 31, nr. 41-49, annot. Group XVI (Without mention of 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 27902, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27902 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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