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cn coin 8023

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CN Type 22 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 540/535-492/490 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Dik_0004_V4 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΔΙΚ
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0003_R3 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
Distater 🔍  
Standard: reduced Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 24 mm / Min: 21 mm
Weight
19.32 g
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: DIK_2R_58_003

Public Commentary

Lesung der VS-Legende auf den überprüfbaren Exemplaren unsicher.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 23, nr. 4, pl. 3  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 nr. 15a, pl. 1, pic. 15  ❐

Literature

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-180 ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 23, nr. 4-6 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 23, nr. 4-6 (According to Schönert-Geiss thraco-macedonian standard.)  ❐

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

Cite this record:

cn coin 8023, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8023 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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