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cn coin 27949

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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
A (position: top left) dot / pellet (position: top left) amphora (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Persian
Material
Weight
2.17 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: CYC-A 986

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: CHER_3R_66_031o/r

Public Commentary

Cannot be assigned to a type, as not all symbols on the reverse can be identified. Maybe new type, but unclear whether pellet besides amphora.

Literature

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

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cn coin 27949, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27949 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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