Catalogus
Volledige afbeeldingen bekijken — gratis registratie
Doorgaan met Google — het is gratis
of registreer met e-mail
Waarom registreren? Alleen om bots buiten ons catalogus te houden. Uw e-mail blijft privé — we delen het nooit en sturen u niets zonder uw toestemming. Dat garanderen wij u!
Hemidrachm
| Uitgever | Cherronesos |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 386 BC - 338 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Gewicht | Log in om details te zien |
| Diameter | Log in om details te zien |
| Dikte | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Techniek | Log in om details te zien |
| Oriëntatie | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Forepart of a lion to right, head turned back to left in the characteristic Cherronesian style, the mane rendered in bold, finely striated relief with a pronounced volute curl at the chest. The musculature of the forequarters is rendered with considerable naturalistic detail, and the open jaws display a curled tongue. The figure occupies the full width of the flan, with no legend or inscription in the field. |
|---|---|
| Schrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Schrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Rand | Log in om details te zien |
| Muntplaats | Log in om details te zien |
| Oplage | ND (386 BC - 338 BC) |
| Aanvullende informatie |
Chersonesos, the Thracian peninsula city, produced these hemidrachms in enormous quantities over roughly five decades, making them one of the most widely circulated fractional silver coinages in the entire Aegean trade network. Their ubiquity in hoards from Asia Minor to the Black Sea littoral suggests they functioned almost as a regional trade currency well beyond their city of issue.
The type is notorious among die students for its extraordinary variety — no two obverses appear to share identical incuse punch configurations, implying continuous die production across multiple generations of engravers without a standardizing template.