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cn coin 8024

Connected to Type
CN Type 2 🔍
Mint
Dikaia 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology
Date
c. 540/535-492/490 BC
Archaic Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Dik_0001_V1 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΔΙΚ
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, left, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0001_R1 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
Distater 🔍 ❐
Material
silver  🔍 ❐
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
18.36 g
Owner
British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  ❐
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: DIK_2R_58_001
Findspot
(Arab Republic of Egypt) Ägypten, eg [eg] ❐
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 23, nr. 1.3, pl. 3, pic. 1/2  ❐
May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 15, nr. 13b, pl. 1, pic. 3  ❐
Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 p. 1767  ❐
Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 p. 2353, pl. 91  ❐
Head, Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics, Oxford 1911 nr. 252  ❐
Literature
Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 180-181  ❐
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 23, nr. 1, pl. 3 (Only one specimen of this type is known. According to Schönert-Geiss thraco-macedonian standard.)   ❐
Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-181 (Reduced aeginetan standard, dated 530-480 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. 97, nr. 1444  ❐
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cn coin 8024, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8024 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/25]
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