cn coin 8074

Connected to Type

CN Type 51 🔍

Mint

Dikaia 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

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

Obverse

Die

Dik_0044_V8 🔍

Design

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

Die

Dik_0044_R5 🔍

Design

Cock standing right, holding worm in beak; in dotted square within incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm (triobol) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

12.5 mm

Weight

1.89 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_041o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 28, nr. 44.1  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 21, nr. 23a, pl. 2  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 2, Cambridge 1926 p. 116, nr. 3986, pl. 145, pic. 14  ❐

Literature

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

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 27-28, nr. 32-45, pl. 4-5 (III. series of the Thraco-Macedonian standard, triobol.)   ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168-181 (Reduced Chian standard, Hemidrachm, c. 480-450 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. 99, nr. 1452  ❐

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cn coin 8074, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8074 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/10]

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