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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.GS87692. Silver hemidrachm, HGC 3.2 1437; CNG e-auction 104, lot 37; Numismatik Naumann auction 67, lot 57, VF, tight flan, obverse off center, die wear, Cherronesos (Gallipoli peninsula) mint, weight 2.284g, maximum diameter 13.2mm, die axis 315o, c. 386 - 338 B.C.; obverse lion forepart right, head turned back left, tongue protruding; reverse quadripartite incuse square with alternating shallow and deeper sunken quarters, selinon (or grape?) leaf on a stem in on of the sunk quadrants, a pellet in the opposite sunk quadrant; apparently unpublished, second specimen handled by Forum, two others know from auctions; very rare; SOLD
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