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cn coin 47520

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CN Type 20374 🔍

Coinage
 
Mint
Chersonesus Thracica 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 515-493 BC

Archaic/Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Forepart of a prancing lion, right, head left.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square, divided by two crossed lines.
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Metrology
Denomination
1/8 Hekte 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
6 mm
Weight
0.32 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Classical Numismatic Group, E-Auction 306, 10.7.2013, lot 23.

Literature

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. 1436 (Hemiobol, attic standard)  ❐

van Alfen, Ambiguities in Monetary Authority: the Archaic Coinages of the Thracian Chersones 77, Berlin p. 153, nr. 46-48 (1/48 Stater)  ❐

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 47520, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_47520 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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