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cn coin 6429

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CN Type 3867 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 540/535-492/490 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Dik_0015_V8 🔍
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0015_R9 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: reduced Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
19 mm
Weight
9.80 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18239249

Provenience: 1902/797 - Vorbesitzer Bissing

Findspot

Damanhūr, eg [eg] ❐

Citation

Dressel and Regling, Zwei ägyptische Funde altgriechischer Silbermünzen 37, 1927 p. 28, nr. 3, pl. 1,3, annot. 29, 3γ  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 12, nr. 7a, pl. 1, pic. 7  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 24, nr. 15,1, pl. 3  ❐

Literature

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

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-181 (Reduced aeginetan standard, c. 530-480 BC.)  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 24-25, nr. 15-17, pl. 3 (According to Schönert-Geiss thraco-macedonian standard.)  ❐

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