cn type 6465

League  ❐

Edition

cn.chersonesus_thrace.1_ed.6

Mint

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

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 13 mm / Min: 12 mm

Average Weight

2.70 g (3x)

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 🔍

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