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Hemidrachm

Features

Issuer Kalchedon (Bithynia)
Type Standard circulation coins
Years 387 BC - 340 BC
Value Hemidrachm (½)
Currency Chian-Rhodian drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 1.98 g
Diameter 12 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
358692
References BMC Greek# 3
British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes).
, GCV# 3736
David R. Sear. Greek Coins and Their Values. B.A. Seaby, London, United Kingdom (2 volumes).
, SNG Stancomb# 10
William M. Stancomb; 2000. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Great Britain / Volume 11. The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea region. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.
, SNG BM Black Sea# 89
Martin Jessop Price; 1993. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 9.1. The British Museum. Part 1: The Black Sea. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
, HGC 7# 513
Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia / Volume 7: Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian Bosporos): Fifth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom.
, Recueil# 6
William Henry Waddington, Ernest Babelon, Théodore Reinach. Recueil général des monnaies grecques d'Asie mineure. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France (4 volumes).

Obverse

Head of Apollo right.

Reverse

Radiate wheel within circular incuse.

Script: Greek

Lettering: K A Λ

Mint

Calchedon, Bithynia, modern-day Kadıköy, Turkey

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Roma Numismatics
Auction XVIII
Lot 447
Internet Archive
29 Sep 2019 VF USD 1208.45
(GBP 900.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
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