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cn coin 46499

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CN Type 6455 🔍

Coinage
 
Mint
Chersonesus Thracica 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 515-493 BC

Archaic/Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Lion's head, left, with open jaws and protruding tongue.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square, divided by two crossed lines.
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Metrology
Denomination
hekte 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
2.76 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Provenience: Leu Numismatik AG 81 (16 May 2001) 145.

Literature

van Alfen, Ambiguities in Monetary Authority: the Archaic Coinages of the Thracian Chersones 77, Berlin p. 155, nr. 49-62 (Type E.1.a, 1/6 Stater)  ❐

Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk, Berlin 1924 p. 125, nr. 107, pl. 4 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 250, nr. 10 ❐

Tzvetkova, The war over the Chersonese. Zur Chronologie und Periodisierung des athenisch-odrysischen Konflikts um die thrakische Chersones, Αθήνα 2007 p. 17-31 (Period I, 515-493 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 46499, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_46499 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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