cn coin 8087

Connected to Type

CN Type 54 🔍

Mint

Dikaia 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

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

Obverse

Die

Dik_0052_V1 🔍

Design

Cock standing right; circle with a dot above. Short ground line.
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Reverse

Die

Dik_0052_R1 🔍

Design

Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin; within incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

Trihemiobol (1 1/2 obol) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

11 mm

Weight

0.69 g

Axis

6

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  ❐
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Owner Inventory No.: 04633

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: DIK_2R_58_052o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 29, nr. 52.3  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 25, nr. 36a  ❐

Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 nr. 489  ❐

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 pl. 44, pic. 802  ❐

Literature

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

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 29, nr. 52-53 (III. series of the Thraco-Macedonian standard, trihemiobol.)   ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168-181 (Reduced Chian standard, Trihemiobol, 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. 1453  ❐

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cn coin 8087, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8087 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/21]

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