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Hemidrachm Dot/rooster/H
| Issuer | Cherronesos (Thrace) |
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| Year | 357 BC - 320 BC |
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| Weight | 2.39 g |
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| Reverse lettering | H |
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| Mint | Cherronesos Mint |
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| Additional information |
Chersonesos hemidrachms were minted continuously for over a century by a rotating coalition of cities — possibly including Sinope, Byzantium, and others — as a shared trading currency for the Black Sea grain routes. The specific combination of control marks (here a dot, rooster, and H) was how participating authorities identified their own issues within this pooled coinage system, though the precise assignment of individual symbol sets to specific minting authorities remains unresolved in the scholarship.
The rooster as a control mark appears across numerous Chersonesos types and carries no fixed civic attribution. The H may denote a magistrate's initial or a city abbreviation — no consensus exists.