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cn coin 50595

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CN Type 51 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-476/475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Design
Cock standing right, holding worm in beak; within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm (triobol) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
1.66 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger eA 378 (28.04.2004) lot 79 = Peus Auction 386, lot 114, 26.04.2006 =Künker 133, 11.10.2007, lot 7986.

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 27-28, nr. 32-45, pl. 4-5 (III. series of the Thraco-Macedonian standard, triobol.)  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168-181 (Reduced Chian standard, Hemidrachm, 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. 1452 ❐

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cn coin 50595, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50595 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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