cn type 6276

Coinage

Mint

Chersonesus Thracica 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 357-320 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Forepart of a prancing lion, right, head left.
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Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square; two opposite squares lower.
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Symbol

dot / pellet (position: top left) corn-ear (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Persian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

Max: 13 mm / Min: 12.2 mm

Average Weight

2.33 g (24x)

Axes

7 (1x)

Citation

van Alfen, The Thrace (?), c. 1955 Hoard (IGCH 738) 38, New York 2018 p. 28, nr. 10, annot. Group IV ❐

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.96 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 6276, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6276 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]