cn coin 7339
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cn coin 7339

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CN Type 6510 🔍

Mint
Chersonesus Thracica 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 357 to c. 320 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Forepart of a prancing lion, right, head left, forepaws raised and with open jaws.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse mon. *ΑΓ*
Design
Quadripartite incuse square; two opposing quarters more deeply sunk and one containing pellet and monogram, the other A and a lizard upwards.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: top left)
Symbol
dot / pellet (position: top left) lizard (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Persian
Material
Diameter
Max: 13 mm / Min: 12 mm
Weight
2.38 g
Axis
7
Owner

Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, de

Owner Inventory No.: 920

Citation

Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Deutschland [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 2 Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 920 

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 184, nr. 27

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 7339, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7339 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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