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cn coin 39597

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CN Type 6452 🔍

Mint
Chersonesus Thracica 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 478-466 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Lion leaping right; head backwards.
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Reverse
Design
Head of Athena, left, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm (triple siglos) 🔍  
Standard: heavy Persian
Material
Weight
16.84 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb

Owner Inventory No.: 1919,0911.11

Citation

Sheedy and Davis, Gillan, Miltiades II and his alleged mint in the Chersonesos 68, 2019 p. 15, nr. 5  (Minted on the heavy persian standard in Kardia around 478-466 BC.) 

Literature

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 17-31 (Period I, 515-493 BC) 

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 94, nr. 1432 (tetradrachm, 515-493 BC) 

Sheedy and Davis, Gillan, Miltiades II and his alleged mint in the Chersonesos 68, 2019 p. 11-25 (Minted on the heavy persian standard in Kardia around 478-466 BC.) 

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 94, nr. 1432 (tetradrachm, 515-493 BC) 

van Alfen, Ambiguities in Monetary Authority: the Archaic Coinages of the Thracian Chersones 77, Berlin p. 151f., nr. 30-34 (Stater) 

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 17-31 (Period I, 515-493 BC) 

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cn coin 39597, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39597 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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