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cn coin 50543

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CN Type 22 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 540/535-492/490 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΔΙΚ
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Distater 🔍  
Standard: reduced Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
19.19 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Baldwin's Auctions Ltd eA 52 (25.09.2007) lot 24. ex Glendinings, London, 13 November 1957, lot 64 = The New York Sale, Auction 3, lot 109, 07.12.2000

Literature

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 23, nr. 4-6 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 23, nr. 4-6 (According to Schönert-Geiss thraco-macedonian standard.)  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-180 (Reduced aeginetan standard, dated c. 530-480 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 50543, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50543 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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