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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Cherronesos |
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| Year | 386 BC - 338 BC |
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| Weight | 2.41 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (386 BC - 338 BC) - A and pellet in sunken quadrant - ND (386 BC - 338 BC) - A in raised quadrant - ND (386 BC - 338 BC) - AΓ and pellet in sunken quadrant - |
| Additional information |
Chersonesos, the Thracian Chersonese peninsula, issued these hemidrachms continuously for well over a century through a rotating system of magistrate symbols and control marks — which is precisely why the type resists clean attribution to specific decades. The sheer volume struck suggests they functioned as a regional trade currency across the northern Aegean, where Athenian and Macedonian commercial interests competed directly with local Thracian and Persian influence throughout the fourth century.
Philip II's absorption of the region by 338 BC effectively ended the independent civic coinage.