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cn coin 7159

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CN Type 6356 🔍

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 deeply sunk and one containing an A, the other ram's head, right.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: top left)
Symbol
ram's head (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 14 mm / Min: 13 mm
Weight
2.23 g
Owner

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Münzkabinett, Dresden, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1995/225

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 824 ff. ❐

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 7159, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7159 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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