cn coin 27953

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

indistinct symbol (position: top left) E (position: at the bottom right) dot / pellet (position: at the bottom right)

Pecularities

Holed

Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Persian

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

2.27 g

Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: CYC-A 989

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: CHER_3R_66_034o/r

Public Commentary

Cannot be assigned to a type, as not all symbols on the reverse can be identified.

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 27953, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27953 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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