cn coin 27949

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

A (position: top left) dot / pellet (position: top left) amphora (position: at the bottom right)

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 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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