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cn coin 8046

Connected to Type
CN Type 45 🔍
Mint
Dikaia 🔍
Region: Thrace
Typology
Date
c. 492/490-476/475 BC
Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Dik_0027_V7 🔍
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0027_R5 🔍
Design
Cock standing right; in dotted square within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemistater (didrachm) 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
Max: 18 mm / Min: 16 mm
Weight
7.21 g
Owner
American Numismatic Society, New York, us  
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: DIK_2R_58_019
Findspot
Skióni (Σκιωνή), gr [gr]
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 26, nr. 27, pl. 4 
May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 22, nr. 28a, pl. 2 
Literature
Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168  
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 26, nr. 27, pl. 4 (Didrachm, III. series of the 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. 1450  
Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168 (Hemistater, reduced chian standard, c. 480-450 BC.)   
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cn coin 8046, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8046 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/25]
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