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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 2311624, member: 44132&quot;]About a month or so ago, I purchased this Cherronesos AR Hemidrachm from a dealer who suggested the figure in one of the incuse squares is an Ibis.&nbsp; I have researched this coin through a lot of web sites including Barry Murphy&#039;s &quot;<i>The Coinage of Thracian Cherronesos&quot;</i>, and have not been able to find any reference to an Ibis on these coins.&nbsp; However, while looking at all the examples, it seems to me to resemble the coins with an Amphora (<a href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/chersonese/pics/00579q00.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/chersonese/pics/00579q00.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/chersonese/pics/00579q00.jpg</a>).&nbsp; I would appreciate everyone&#039;s opinion.&nbsp; Also, while I know these coins are widely faked, I have checked and double checked the fake databases, but have found no match.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]465989[/ATTACH] </p><p>THRACE</p><p>AR Hemidrachm</p><p>OBVERSE:&nbsp; Forepart of lion right, head turned back&nbsp; </p><p>REVERSE:&nbsp; Quadripartite incuse square, VE beside pellet / amphora</p><p>Struck at Cherronesos, 400-350 BC</p><p>2.22g, 13mm</p><p>BMC Thrace pg. 185, 39; Weber 2423; McClean 4111-4112&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A little background quoted loosely from a FAC discussion:</p><p>Cherronesos is Greek for &#039;peninsula&#039; and several cities used the name. Chersonesus (the city) has never been found. It is sometimes accepted that the hemidrachms were minted in the main city of Thracian Chersonesus, Cardia and Wikipedia gives the location of Cardia as the Gallipoli peninsula at the head of Saros bay.&nbsp; The coins were struck either by the peninsula as a league, or by a lost city of the same name on the peninsula, or by Cardia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please, I am very interested in your opinions; and, of course, post any related coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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