cn coin 8056

Connected to Type

CN Type 49 🔍

Mint

Dikaia 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 492/490-476/475 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Dik_0031_V4 🔍

Design

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

Die

Dik_0031_R4 🔍

Legend

Δ-Ι-Κ

Design

Cock standing right; in dotted square within incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

Tetarte (drachm) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

16 mm

Weight

3.60 g

Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Sammlung McClean

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: DIK_2R_58_027o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 27, nr. 31, pl. 4  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 2, Cambridge 1926 p. 116, nr. 3985, pl. 145, pic. 13  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 25, nr. 35a, pl. 2  ❐

Hirsch, Sammlung Rhusopoulos 13, München 1905 pl. 8, pic. 565  ❐

Literature

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 27, nr. 31, pl. 4 (Drachm, 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. 98, nr. 1451  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168-181 (Quarter-staers, reduced Chian standard, c. 480-450 BC.)   ❐

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cn coin 8056, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8056 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/07]

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