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cn coin 50551

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CN Type 54 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-476/475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Cock standing right.
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Symbol
Θ (position: above)
Reverse
Design
Head of bearded Herakles, right, wearing lion skin; in quadratum incusum.
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Metrology
Denomination
Trihemiobol (1 1/2 obol) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
0.84 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Jean Elsen & ses Fils S.A. eA 94 (15.12.2007) lot 140

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 29, nr. 52-53 (III. series of the Thraco-Macedonian standard, trihemiobol.)  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168-181 (Reduced Chian standard, Trihemiobol, c. 480-450 BC.)  ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 99, nr. 1453 ❐

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cn coin 50551, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50551 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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