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cn coin 57298

Connected to Type
CN Type 1 🔍
Mint
Dikaia 🔍
Region: Thrace
Typology
Date
c. 540/535-492/490 BC
Archaic Period  🔍
Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Distater 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
23.8 mm
Weight
19.19 g
Owner
BBAW, Berlin, de  
Owner Inventory No.: 2023.25.1
Provenience: SHH 3419; Hubert Lanz (21.03.2009)
Literature
Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-180 (Reduced aeginetan standard, dated 530-480 BC.)   
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 23, nr. 4-6 (According to Schönert-Geiss thraco-macedonian standard.)   
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. 97, nr. 1445  
Web Reference: http://www.hourmo.eu/24_Thrace/Dicaea/3419_Dicaea_AR.html  
Cite this record:
cn coin 57298, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_57298 [Last downloaded: 2025/07/20]
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