Hemidrachm Dot VE Monogram/Amphora

Chersonesos in Thrace struck hemidrachms almost continuously from the late fifth century through the Macedonian absorption of the region, and the sheer volume and variety of control marks — dots, monograms, amphoras, and combinations thereof — reflects a mint operating under successive civic, Persian-influenced, and eventually Macedonian commercial pressures. The specific pairing of a dot with the VE monogram and amphora as controls helps narrow this piece within a sprawling series that numismatists have spent generations attempting to sequence.

These coins circulated aggressively across the Black Sea trade network, turning up in hoards from the Crimea to the Aegean.