Hemidrachm Dot X/Lizard

Chersonesos (the Thracian Chersonese, modern Gallipoli peninsula) operated as a semi-autonomous mint throughout the fourth century, producing hemidrachms in enormous quantities to service the grain trade running through the Hellespont. The city's coinage was so commercially trusted across the Aegean that it continued striking to the same standard even after Macedonian expansion under Philip II effectively ended its political independence around 338 BC.

The control marks — here a dot and lizard on the reverse — were used to track individual die pairs or magistrate oversight, though the precise administrative logic behind Chersonesian controls remains unresolved in the scholarship.