cn coin 6135

Connected to Type

CN Type 6276 🔍

Coinage

Mint

Chersonesus Thracica 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 357-320 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 sunk and one containing ear of corn, the other pellet.
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Symbol

dot / pellet (position: top left) corn-ear (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Persian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

12.2 mm

Weight

1.56 g

Axis

Owner

Coll. H.I., , de

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 835, pl. 17, pic. 835 ❐

van Alfen, The Thrace (?), c. 1955 Hoard (IGCH 738) 38, New York 2018 p. 28, nr. 10, annot. Group IV ❐

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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