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cn coin 39648

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CN Type 6367 🔍

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
corn-ear (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Persian
Material
Diameter
13 mm
Weight
2.19 g
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us

Owner Inventory No.: 1956.140.44

Hoard

IGCH 738

Public Commentary

Eine kleine Kugel über oder unter dem Monogramm befindet sich in einigen Exemplaren außerhalb des Schrötlings. Small pellet above or below the monogram is in a few specimens off the flan.

Citation

van Alfen, The Thrace (?), c. 1955 Hoard (IGCH 738) 38, New York 2018 p. 31, nr. 46, annot. Group XVI 

Literature

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

van Alfen, The Thrace (?), c. 1955 Hoard (IGCH 738) 38, New York 2018 p. 31, nr. 41-49, annot. Group XVI (Without mention of the pellet.) 

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 39648, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39648 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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