cn coin 6136

Connected to Type

CN Type 6354 🔍

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 sunk and one containing a star of eight rays, the other pellet and I above.
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Symbol

star (position: top left) Ι (position: at the bottom right) dot / pellet (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Persian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

12.8 mm

Weight

2.41 g

Axis

Owner

Coll. H.I., , de

Provenience: Hirsch 237, 147

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 840, pl. 17, pic. 840 ❐

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 6136, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6136 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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