Hemidrachm

Chersonesos, the Thracian Chersonese, was a strategically vital peninsula controlling access between the Aegean and the Black Sea — and every major power of the classical period knew it. Athens fought to hold it, Philip II of Macedon ultimately seized it around 338 BC, and the hemidrachms struck there during this contested half-century reflect a mint operating under shifting political pressure. The type ran with remarkable consistency across those decades, which is precisely why attribution to a specific sub-period is so difficult.

Grose 4093 places this piece within the main sequence, but die studies by later scholars have suggested the series is far larger and more complex than early cataloguers recognized.