386- 338 BC SILVER THRACIAN CHERSONESUS HEMIDRACHM LION ANACS VERY FINE 35

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CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION
THRACIAN CHERSONESE (MODERN DAY GALLIPOLI PENNISULA OF TURKEY)
FOURTH CENTURY BC SILVER HEMIDRACHM
CERTIFIED BY ANACS EXTRA FINE 35
OBVERSE
:
FOREPART OF A MANED LION REGAURDANT.
REVERSE: BIPARTITE INCUSE WITH MONOGRAMS IN 2 OF THE FOUR DIVIDED FIELDS.
SILVER COMPOSITION
13 MM IN DIAMETER
THE
CHERSONESOS
WAS FOUNDED IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY BC BY SETTLERS FROM
THRACE
. THEY FOUNDED 12 CITIES.
IN THE SEVENTH CENTURY BC ATHENS FOUNDED A MAJOR COLONY AND FORTIFIED THE PENNISULA UNTIL THE PERSIAN
CONQUEST IN 493 BC. AFTER THE DEFEAT OF PERSIA BY ATHENS, THE CHERSONESE WAS AGAIN UNDER ATHENIAN RULE,
AND A MEMBER OF THE DELIAN LEAGUE EXCEPT FOR BRIEF SPARTAN HEGEMONY DURING THE PELOPONESSIAN WAR.
THE 4TH CENTURY, THE TIME IN WHICH THIS COIN WAS STRUCK, SAW A BITTER RIVALRY OVER CONTROL OF THIS
STRATEGIC GREEK FOOTHOLD IN ASIA BETWEEN ATHENS AND KING PHILIP II OF MACEDON. THE LAND WAS CEDED TO
PHILIP II, FATHER OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, IN 338 BC, AND BECAME A PART OF THE KINGDOM OF MACEDON.
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