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cn coin 7340

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CN Type 6330 🔍

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.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square; two opposing quarters more deeply sunk and one containing a dot and a stripe, the other a hook.
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Symbol
Ι (position: top left) corn-ear (position: at the bottom right) dot / pellet (position: top left)
Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
14 mm
Weight
2.47 g
Axis
10
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 921

Citation

Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Deutschland [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 2 Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 921  ❐

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 835 ❐

van Alfen, The Thrace (?), c. 1955 Hoard (IGCH 738) 38, New York 2018 p. 33, nr. 91-92, annot. Group XXVII ❐

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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