cn coin 50584

Connected to Type

CN Type 46 🔍

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 within incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

Tetarte (drachm) 🔍
Standard: reduced Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

14 mm

Weight

3.09 g

Axis

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Roma Numismatics Limited eA 18 (27.06.2015) lot 219. From the Mark Christenson Collection; Purchased from Harlan J Berk; Ex Lewis Egnew Collection, Superior, 30 May 1995, lot 7204.

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 26-27, nr. 28-30, pl. 4 (Drachm, 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. 1451 ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168-181 (Quarter-staters, reduced Chian standard, c. 480-450 BC.) ❐

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cn coin 50584, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50584 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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