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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Chersonesos| > GA85140
Chersonesos, Thrace, c. 386 - 338 B.C.
|Chersonesos|, |Chersonesos,| |Thrace,| |c.| |386| |-| |338| |B.C.|, Chersonesos is Greek for 'peninsula' and several cities used the name. The city in Thracian Chersonesos (the Gallipoli peninsula) that struck these coins is uncertain. The coins may have been struck at Cardia by the peninsula as a league, or perhaps they were struck by lost city on the peninsula named Chersonesos. Chersonesos was controlled by Athens from 560 B.C. to 338 B.C., aside from a brief period during this time when it was controlled by Persia. It was taken by Philip II of Macedonia in 338 B.C., Pergamon in 189 B.C., and Rome in 133 B.C. It was later ruled by the Byzantine Empire and then by the Ottoman Turks.
GA85140. Silver hemidrachm, cf. McClean II 4055 ff.; BMC Thrace p. 183, 8 ff.; Weber 2405 ff.; Dewing 1301 ff.; SNG Cop 824 ff.; HGC 3.2 1427, VF/F, toned, light corrosion, symbols on reverse not fully struck, Cardia(?) mint, weight 2.176g, maximum diameter 12.8mm, c. 386 - 338 B.C.; obverse lion forepart right, head turned back left, paws raised; reverse quadripartite incuse with alternating shallow and deeper sunken quarters, uncertain symbols in the sunk opposite quadrants; SOLD











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