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cn coin 59568

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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 🔍  
Standard: reduced Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
19.10 g
Owner

Stavri Topalov, Sofia, bg

Findspot

Smoljan (Смолян), bg [bg] ❐

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 ❐

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cn coin 59568, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_59568 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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