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cn coin 8029

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CN Type 41 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 540/535-492/490 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Dik_0019_V1 🔍
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0019_R1 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
hekte (triobol, drachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
12 mm
Weight
1.79 g
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: DIK_2R_58_009

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 25, nr. 19.1, pl. 3  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 nr. 11b  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1766, pl. 56, pic. 9  ❐

Head, Historia Numorum, Chicago 1967 nr. 252  ❐

Svoronos, L'Hellénisme primitif de la Macédoine prouvé par la numismatique et l'or du Pangée, Paris 1919 p. 92, nr. 10a, pl. 15, pic. 13, annot. dort Herakleia  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 25, nr. 19-20, pl. 3 (According to Schönert-Geiss triobol 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. 1448 (Hekte.)  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-181 (Reduced aeginetan standard, drachms? Hekte not mentioned.)  ❐

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cn coin 8029, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8029 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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