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cn coin 7157

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CN Type 6266 🔍

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 deeply sunk, each containing a pellet.
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Symbol
dot / pellet (position: top left) dot / pellet (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
Hemisiglos 🔍  
Standard: reduced Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 12 mm / Min: 11 mm
Weight
2.29 g
Owner

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Münzkabinett, Dresden, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1995/223

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 842 ❐

van Alfen, The Thrace (?), c. 1955 Hoard (IGCH 738) 38, New York 2018 p. 28, nr. 1-3, annot. Group I ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 824, pl. 17, pic. 824 ❐

Tzvetkova, The war over the Chersonese. Zur Chronologie und Periodisierung des athenisch-odrysischen Konflikts um die thrakische Chersones, Αθήνα 2007 p. 17-31 (Periode II, 357-323/320 BC.)  ❐

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 7157, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7157 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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