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cn coin 57296

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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
16.2 mm
Weight
3.41 g
Axis
1
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 2023.25.2

Provenience: SHH 288; Ed. Waddell (15.07.2001)

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.)  ❐

Web Reference: http://www.hourmo.eu/24_Thrace/Dicaea/0288_Dicaea_AR.html ❐

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cn coin 57296, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_57296 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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