cn coin 50573

Connected to Type

CN Type 51 🔍

Mint

Dikaia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-476/475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

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

Design

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

Denomination

hemidrachm (triobol) 🔍
Standard: reduced Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

11.5 mm

Weight

1.54 g

Axis

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Classical Numismatic Group eA (18.05.2022) lot 516, From the J. de Wilde Collection. Ex Herbert Cahn Collection (Numismatica Genevensis SA 7, 27 November 2012), lot 103 (part of); Schweizerische Kreditanstalt Bern FPL 47 (December 1985), lot 43.

Literature

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 50573, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50573 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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