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cn coin 8028

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CN Type 3867 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 540/535-492/490 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Dik_0016_V9 🔍
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0016_R10 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: reduced Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 17.5 mm / Min: 16 mm
Weight
9.79 g
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.15676

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Citation

Naville, Sammlung S. Pozzi 1, Genua 1920 pl. 35, pic. 1058, annot. dort falsches Gewicht angegeben  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 nr. 8a, pl. 1, pic. 8  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 24 f., nr. 16, pl. 3  ❐

Literature

Svoronos, L'Hellénisme primitif de la Macédoine prouvé par la numismatique et l'or du Pangée, Paris 1919 p. 91, nr. 4a, annot. dort Herakleia ❐

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

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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cn coin 8028, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8028 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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