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cn coin 6427

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CN Type 21 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 540/535-492/490 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
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Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Die
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Design
Incuse square divided into four triangles with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
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Standard: reduced Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
9.47 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18239075

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

Citation

Dressel and Regling, Zwei ägyptische Funde altgriechischer Silbermünzen 37, 1927 p. 29, annot. 3α  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 24, nr. 7, pl. 3  ❐

Literature

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-181 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 23-24, nr. 7-14, pl. 3 (According to Schönert-Geiss 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. 97, nr. 1446 ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-180 (Reduced aeginetan standard, c. 530-480 BC.)  ❐

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