cn type 6455

Coinage

Mint

Chersonesus Thracica 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 515-493 BC

Archaic/Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Lion's head, left, with open jaws and protruding tongue.
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Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square, divided by two crossed lines.
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Metrology

Denomination

hekte 🔍

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

13 mm (5x)

Average Weight

2.65 g (6x)

Citation

van Alfen, Ambiguities in Monetary Authority: the Archaic Coinages of the Thracian Chersones 77, Berlin p. 155, nr. 49-62 (Type E.1.a, 1/6 Stater) ❐

Literature

Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk, Berlin 1924 p. 125, nr. 107, pl. 4 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 250, nr. 10 ❐

Tzvetkova, The war over the Chersonese. Zur Chronologie und Periodisierung des athenisch-odrysischen Konflikts um die thrakische Chersones, Αθήνα 2007 p. 17-31 (Period I, 515-493 BC) ❐

editions

cn.chersonesus_thrace.1_ed.1 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 6455, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6455 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]