cn coin 6426

Connected to Type

CN Type 21 🔍

Mint

Dikaia 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 540/535-492/490 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Dik_0012_V6 🔍

Design

Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse

Die

Dik_0012_R6 🔍

Design

Incuse square divided into four triangles with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology

Denomination

stater 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

18 mm

Weight

9.57 g

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18239074
Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

Findspot

Damanhūr, eg [eg] ❐

Citation

Dressel and Regling, Zwei ägyptische Funde altgriechischer Silbermünzen 37, 1927 p. 28, nr. 2, pl. 1, pic. 2  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 12, nr. 5a, pl. 1  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 24, nr. 12, pl. 3  ❐

Literature

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-181  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 23-24, nr. 7-14, pl. 3 (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. 1446  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-180 (Reduced aeginetan standard, c. 530-480 BC.)   ❐

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