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cn coin 8026

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CN Type 21 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 540/535-492/490 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Dik_0009_V3 🔍
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0009_R3 🔍
Design
Incuse square divided into four triangles with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: reduced Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 19 mm / Min: 18 mm
Weight
9.60 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: DIK_2R_58_005

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 24, nr. 9, pl. 3  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 115, nr. 1  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1765  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 nr. 2a, pl. 1, pic. 2  ❐

Literature

Svoronos, L'Hellénisme primitif de la Macédoine prouvé par la numismatique et l'or du Pangée, Paris 1919 p. 90, nr. 1b, annot. dort Herakleia ❐

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

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

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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cn coin 8026, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8026 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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