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Hemidrachm

Features

Issuer Phasis (Kolchis)
Type Standard circulation coins
Years 425 BC - 400 BC
Value Hemidrachm (½)
Currency Persic siglos/drachm
Composition Srebro
Weight 2.4 g
Diameter 11 mm
Shape Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique Młotkowana
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
385760
References SNG BM Black Sea# 1013-1019
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.
, SNG Copenhagen# 98
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes).
, BMC Greek# 1-5
British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes).
, HGC 7# 215
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.
, GCV# 3628
David R. Sear. Greek Coins and Their Values. B.A. Seaby, London, United Kingdom (2 volumes).
, SNG Delepierre# 2469-2470
Hélène Nicolet-Pierre, Georges Le Rider; 1983. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, France / Volume 1. Bibliothèque nationale de France: Collection Jean et Marie Delepierre. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France.
, Waddington# 7073-7076
Ernest Babelon; 1898. Inventaire sommaire de la collection Waddington: Acquise par l'État en 1897 pour le département des Médailles et Antiques de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Rollin & Feuardent, Paris, France.
, SNG Stancomb# 633-637
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.
, Hind# 7
John F. Hind; 2005. “The Types on the Phasian Silver Coins of the Fifth-Fourth Centuries BC (The 'Kolkhidki' of Western Georgia)”, The Numismatic Chronicle, Volume 165, pages 1-14.

Obverse

Archaiczna głowa kobiety w prawo w liniowym obramowaniu koła.Automatically translated

Reverse

Głowa byka w prawo w liniowej obwódce.Automatically translated

Mint

Phasis, modern-day Poti, Georgia

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (425 BC - 400 BC)  Photo $ 47 $ 150 $ 330

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Examples of the type

Picture 1 of the example of Hemidrachm Picture 2 of the example of Hemidrachm
© Bibliothèque nationale de France / Gallica, ark:/12148/btv1b85014126
2.24 g
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. France 1. Collection Jean et Marie Delepierre 2469
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Picture 1 of the example of Hemidrachm Picture 2 of the example of Hemidrachm
© Bibliothèque nationale de France / Gallica, ark:/12148/btv1b103004989
2.03 g
Waddington 7073
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Picture 1 of the example of Hemidrachm Picture 2 of the example of Hemidrachm
© Bibliothèque nationale de France / Gallica, ark:/12148/btv1b10300492m
2.21 g (see more)
Picture 1 of the example of Hemidrachm Picture 2 of the example of Hemidrachm
© Bibliothèque nationale de France / Gallica, ark:/12148/btv1b10300489b
2.15 g (see more)
Picture 1 of the example of Hemidrachm Picture 2 of the example of Hemidrachm
© Bibliothèque nationale de France / Gallica, ark:/12148/btv1b10300490q
2.01 g (see more)
Picture 1 of the example of Hemidrachm Picture 2 of the example of Hemidrachm
© British Museum, 1866,1201.3508
2.23 g
SNG BM Black Sea 1015; BMC Greek 2
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See all 7 examples

Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold Hemidrachm
CNG
Triton XXVI
Lot 182
Internet Archive
10 Jan 2023 XF USD 750.00
(+ buyer's premium)

Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXX (11 June 1994), lot 151

Picture 1 of a sold Hemidrachm
Multiple sales of the same specimen:
Numismatica Ars Classica
Auction 123
Lot 570
Internet Archive
9 May 2021 XF USD 348.43
(CHF 275.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Hemidrachm
Gorny & Mosch
Auction 195
Lot 193
Internet Archive
7 Mar 2011 XF USD 290.34
(EUR 250.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Hemidrachm
Künker
Auction 434 eLive
Lot 8111
Internet Archive
17 Nov 2025 VF USD 139.36
(EUR 120.00)
(+ buyer's premium)

Ex Hirsch Nachf. 194, Munich 1997, No. 198

Picture 1 of a sold Hemidrachm
Stephen Album
Auction 52
Lot 1531
Internet Archive
15 May 2025 VF USD 325.00
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Hemidrachm
Savoca Numismatik
100th Silver Auction
Lot 86
Internet Archive
18 Apr 2021 VF USD 110.33
(EUR 95.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Hemidrachm
Stephen Album
Auction 35
Lot 431
Internet Archive
12 Sep 2019 VF USD 160.00
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Hemidrachm
Stephen Album
Auction 35
Lot 430
Internet Archive
12 Sep 2019 VF USD 220.00
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Hemidrachm
Harlan J. Berk
Buy or Bid Sale 201
Lot 114
Internet Archive
13 Jul 2017 VF USD 350.00
(+ buyer's premium)

Ex Berk 181, 7 November 2012, lot 298

Picture 1 of a sold Hemidrachm
iNumis
Mail Bid Sale 34
Lot 30
Internet Archive
11 Oct 2016 VF USD 164.91
(EUR 142.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
See all 15 past sales

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