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cn coin 50544

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CN Type 42 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492-475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Legend
ΔΙΚ(Α,ΑΙ)
Design
Bull\'s head, left, within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemistater (didrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
7.29 g
Axis
5
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc., Triton XI, Lot 88, 08.01.2008

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 26, nr. 22, pl. 4 (Didrachm, 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. 1449 ❐

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

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cn coin 50544, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50544 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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