cn coin 47521

Connected to Type

CN Type 20379 🔍

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

Hemihekte 🔍

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

10 mm

Weight

1.27 g

Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1968.184.1

Literature

van Alfen, Ambiguities in Monetary Authority: the Archaic Coinages of the Thracian Chersones 77, Berlin p. 156, nr. 63-65 (type E.1.b, 1/12 Stater) ❐

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cn coin 47521, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_47521 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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