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cn type 6453

Coinage
 
Mint
Chersonesus Thracica 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 478-466 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Lion leaping right; head backwards.
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Reverse
Legend
ΧΕΡ
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm (triple siglos) 🔍  
Standard: heavy Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Average Weight
16.25 g (1x)
Citation

Sheedy and Davis, Gillan, Miltiades II and his alleged mint in the Chersonesos 68, 2019 p. 11-25  ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 94, nr. 1432  (tetradrachem, 515-493 BC)  ❐

van Alfen, Ambiguities in Monetary Authority: the Archaic Coinages of the Thracian Chersones 77, Berlin p. 151f., nr. 35  (Stater)  ❐

Literature

Tzvetkova, The Coinage of Kardia 13, 2009 p. 17-31 ❐

editions

cn.chersonesus_thrace.1_ed.8  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 6453, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6453 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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