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cn coin 8022

Connected to Type
CN Type 1 🔍
Mint
Dikaia 🔍
Region: Thrace
Typology
Date
c. 540/535-492/490 BC
Archaic Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Dik_0002_V2 🔍
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0002_R2 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
Distater 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
18.93 g
Owner
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  
Owner Inventory No.: 62577
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Citation
Comstock and Vermuele, Greek coins 1950 to 1963. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 1964 pl. 6, pic. 71 
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 23, nr. 2, pl. 3 
Literature
Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-181  
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 8022, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8022 [Last downloaded: 2024/09/09]
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