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CN Type 51 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-476/475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Dik_0035_V4 🔍
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
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Design
Cock standing right, holding worm in beak; in dotted square within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm (triobol) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
Diameter
13 mm
Weight
1.69 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18239355

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

Citation

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 21, nr. 21A a, pl. 2, pic. 21A 

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 28, nr. 37, pl. 4 

Literature

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 27-28, nr. 32-45, pl. 4-5 (III. series of the Thraco-Macedonian standard, triobol.) 

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

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. 99, nr. 1452

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cn coin 6436, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6436 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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