cn type 20644

League  ❐

Mint

Chersonesus Thracica 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 357-320 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Forepart of a prancing lion, right, head left.

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square; two divisions raised.

Monogram

(position: top left)

Symbol

dot / pellet (position: top left)
grain of barley (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Average Diameter

14 mm / 13 mm

Average Weight

2.32 g (2x)

Public Commentary

Corn sometimes described as fish.

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  ❐

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cn type 20644, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20644 [Last downloaded: 2022/07/06]

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