cn type 6311

Coinage

League

Edition

cn.chersonesus_thrace.1_ed.107

Mint

Chersonesus Thracica 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 357-320 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Forepart of a prancing lion, right, head left.
go to the NLP result of this description

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square; two divisions raised.
go to the NLP result of this description

Monogram

(position: top left)

Symbol

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

Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Persian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

Max: 14 mm / Min: 11 mm

Average Weight

2.43 g (7x)

Public Commentary

Es ist anzunehmen, dass sich die kleine Kugel stets unter dem Monogramm befindet und nur bei einigen Exemplaren außerhalb des Schrötlings liegt. It can be assumed that the small pellet is always below the monogram and only in a few specimens is off the flan.

Citation

van Alfen, The Thrace (?), c. 1955 Hoard (IGCH 738) 38, New York 2018 p. 31, nr. 36-40, annot. Group XV (Wihtout mentioning the pellet.) ❐

Literature

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) ❐

editions

cn.chersonesus_thrace.1_ed.107 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 6311, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/cn.chersonesus_thrace.1_ed.107 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/15]