cn coin 9488

Connected to Type

CN Type 6307 🔍

Coinage

Mint

Chersonesus Thracica 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

357-323/320 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Forepart of a lion, right, head left.
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Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square; two opposing quarters more sunk and one containing a pellet and monogram; the other Corinthian helmet.
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Symbol

dot / pellet (position: top left) A (position: top left) grape (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Persian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

13.1 mm

Weight

2.28 g

Owner

Museum August Kestner, Hannover, Hannover, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: N.Mz. 215

Literature

van Alfen, The Thrace (?), c. 1955 Hoard (IGCH 738) 38, New York 2018 p. 30, nr. 24-29, annot. Group XII ❐

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 9488, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9488 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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