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cn coin 5990

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CN Type 6351 🔍

Coinage
 
Mint
Chersonesus Thracica 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

357-323/320 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Forepart of a prancing lion, right, head left, forepaws raised and with open jaws and protruding tongue.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square; two opposing quarters more deeply sunk and one containing a pellet and below, an X, the other a lizard upwards.
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Symbol
dot / pellet (position: top left) Χ (position: top left) lizard (position: at the bottom left)
Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
2.39 g
Axis
6
Owner

The Princeton University Numismatic Collection, Princeton, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: Issue 4680

Provenience: Coll. Firestone; Princeton University Museum, Princeton, 1/1/2004 No.: 55-287\r\nOn permanent loan; bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895.

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 186, nr. 51 ❐

Sear, Greek Coins and their Values, London 1994 nr. 1349 ❐

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 5990, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5990 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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