Hemidrachm

Features

Country Kyrene
(Kyrenaica)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 500 BC - 480 BC
Value 1 Hemidrachm = 1/2 Drachm (1/2)
Currency Drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 1.72 g
Diameter 8.0 mm
Shape Round
Demonetized Yes
References BMC Greek# 22
  • Reginald Stuart Poole; 1876. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 2. Sicily. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Percy Gardner; 1887. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 10. Peloponnesus (Excluding Corinth). British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Barclay Vincent Head; 1888. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 11. Attica-Megaris-Aegina. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Barclay Vincent Head; 1889. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 12. Corinth, Colonies of Corinth, etc.. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Warwick William Wroth; 1889. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 13. Pontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, and the Kingdom of Bosporus. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Barclay Vincent Head; 1892. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 14. Ionia. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Reginald Stuart Poole; 1892. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 15. Of Alexandria and the Nomes. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Warwick William Wroth; 1894. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 16. Mysia. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Warwick William Wroth; 1894. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 17. Troas, Aeolis, and Lesbos. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Barclay Vincent Head; 1897. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 18. Caria, Cos, Rhodes etc.. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • George Francis Hill; 1897. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 19. Lycia, Pamphylia, and Pisidia. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Warwick William Wroth; 1898. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 20. Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • George Francis Hill; 1900. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 21. Lycaonia, Isauria, and Cilicia. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Barclay Vincent Head; 1901. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 22. Lydia. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • George Francis Hill; 1904. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 23. Cyprus. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Barclay Vincent Head; 1904. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 24. Phrygia. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • George Francis Hill; 1910. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 25. Phoenicia. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • George Francis Hill; 1914. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 26. Palestine (Galilee, Samaria, and Judaea). British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • George Francis Hill; 1922. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 27. Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Persia (Nabataea, Arabia Provincia, S. Arabia, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Assyria, Persia, Alexandrine Empire of the East, Persis, Elymais, Characene). British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson; 1927. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 28. Cyrenaica. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Percy Gardner, Barclay Vincent Head; 1877. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 3. The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc.. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Percy Gardner; 1878. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 4. The Seleucid Kings of Syria. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Barclay Vincent Head; 1879. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 5. Macedonia, etc.. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Percy Gardner; 1883. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 6. Thessaly to Aetolia. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Reginald Stuart Poole; 1883. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 7. The Ptolemies, Kings of Egypt. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Barclay Vincent Head; 1884. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 8. Central Greece (Locris, Phocis, Boeotia, and Euboea). British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
  • Warwick William Wroth; 1886. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 9. Crete and the Aegean Islands. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Silphium fruit (seed pod?) with point downwards

Reverse

Silphium fruit (seed pod?) with point downwards. All within incuse square

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (500 BC - 480 BC) 

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