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cn coin 6664

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CN Type 6347 🔍

Mint
Chersonesus Thracica 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 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 with alternating raised and sunken quarters, bee in one quarter; the other monogram V, E, I and a pellet beside.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: top left)
Symbol
dot / pellet (position: top left) Bee (position: at the bottom left)
Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
13 mm
Weight
2.38 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246423

Provenience: 1841/178 - Vorbesitzer Altenstein

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 255, nr. 64  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 185, nr. 41  ❐

Literature

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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