Lion of Chersonesos Coin Charm Pendant

The lion, an emblem of power and a symbol of Chersonesos' natural locality, adds to the coin's elegant simplicity. The design features a backward-looking lion with its tongue out and a curving body, gracefully following the coin's curvature.

Little is known about Chersonesos apart from its coinage. Like many other Greek city-states, the city of Chersonesos was built on a site that offered significant military or economic advantages. Located on a peninsula extending from Europe into the Aegean Sea on the west and the Dardanelles on the east, its name derives from the ancient Greek word for peninsula, ‘χερσόνησος’.

From 560 to 338 B.C., Chersonesos was under Athenian control, during which the hemidrachma coin played a crucial role in facilitating trade with cities along the Black Sea coast.

• Coin Ø 1mm

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