Hemidrachm

Chersonesos, the Thracian Cherronese peninsula, produced these hemidrachms in enormous quantities over roughly five decades, and they circulated far beyond their point of origin — hoards have turned up across the Black Sea littoral, Asia Minor, and into the Levant. The type functioned almost as a regional trade coin, trusted precisely because its weight standard was reliable enough that merchants rarely bothered to test it. McClean 4105 represents one of the more frequently encountered die pairings within what is actually a vast and complex series of obverse and reverse combinations, many still uncatalogued in full.