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cn coin 6440

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CN Type 46 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-476/475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Dik_0029_V2 🔍
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0029_R2 🔍
Design
Cock standing right; in dotted square within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Tetarte (drachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
3.53 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18239363

Provenience: 1863/28627.41 - Veräusserer Lambros

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 232, nr. 4  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 27, nr. 29.1, pl. 4  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 24, nr. 33h, pl. 2  ❐

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.)  ❐

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cn coin 6440, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6440 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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