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cn coin 68815

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CN Type 6347 🔍

Coinage
 
Mint
Chersonesus Thracica 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 357-320 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Forepart of a prancing lion, right, head left.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square; two opposite squares lower.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: top left)
Symbol
dot / pellet (position: top left) Bee (position: at the bottom left)
Pecularities

chisel cuts on edge

Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
12 mm
Weight
2.12 g
Axis
7
Owner

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: M 1053

Provenience: G 54/13 (Welz 1966; ex Hess)

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)  ❐

Web Reference: https://mk-bochum.ikmk.net/object?id=ID1795 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 68815, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_68815 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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