cn coin 8203

Connected to Type

CN Type 274 🔍

Mint

Dikaia 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

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

Obverse

Legend

ΔΙ-ΚΑΙ

Design

Cock standing right.
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Reverse

Design

Head of bearded Herakles, right, wearing lion skin; in quadratum incusum.
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Metrology

Denomination

Obol 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

0.57 g

Axis

2

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Auktionshaus Classical Numismatic Group

Reproduction Owner

commerce / im Handel, []

Public Commentary

Nicht in Schönert-Geiss, Zuweisung an das thrakische Dikaia auf Grund der selben Motive bei den Trihemiobolen.

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 29, nr. 55-57 var  ❐

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

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168 (Reduced Chian standard, c. 480-450 BC. Psoma isn\'t mentioning an obol, but in Abdera a coin with the same weight is called 12th-Hemihekta by her.)   ❐

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cn coin 8203, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8203 [Last downloaded: 2024/10/12]

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