cn coin 37906
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cn coin 37906

Connected to Type

CN Type 6385 🔍

Coinage
 
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
dot / pellet (position: top left) lizard (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
13 mm
Weight
2.19 g
Owner

Archäologisches Museum Çanakkale, Çanakkale, tr ❐

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Public Commentary

Cannot be assigned to a type because it cannot be identified what is next to the pellet and in the 2nd square.

Citation

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 p. 124, nr. 1008, pl. LVII  ❐

Literature

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 37906, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_37906 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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