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cn type 6465

Coinage
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Chersonesus Thracica 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 515-493 BC

Archaic/Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Forepart of a prancing lion, right, head left.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square, divided by two crossed lines.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Material
Diameter
Max: 13 mm / Min: 12 mm
Average Weight
2.69 g (4x)
Citation

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. 1434  (Tetrobol) 

van Alfen, Ambiguities in Monetary Authority: the Archaic Coinages of the Thracian Chersones 77, Berlin p. 152f., nr. 36-41  (1/6 Stater) 

Literature

Tzvetkova, The war over the Chersonese. Zur Chronologie und Periodisierung des athenisch-odrysischen Konflikts um die thrakische Chersones, Αθήνα 2007 p. 17-31

editions

cn.chersonesus_thrace.1_ed.6  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 6465, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6465 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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