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cn coin 50596

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CN Type 41 🔍

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Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 540/535-492/490 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
hekte (triobol, drachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
1.88 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH eA 73 (17.05.2004) lot 183

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 25, nr. 19-20, pl. 3 (According to Schönert-Geiss triobol 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. 1448 (Hekte.)  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-181 (Reduced aeginetan standard, drachms? Hekte not mentioned.)  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 50596, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_50596 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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