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cn coin 8030

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CN Type 25 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 540/535-492/490 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Dik_0018_V1 🔍
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0018_R1 🔍
Design
Rude irregular quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Trite 🔍  
Standard: reduced Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
12.5 mm
Weight
2.86 g
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: DIK_2R_58_008

Public Commentary

Too heavy for the drachms mentioned by Psoma 2015, 2.10-1.86g.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 25, nr. 18, pl. 3  ❐

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 pl. 91, pic. 2356  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 nr. 10a, pl. 1, pic. 10 ❐

Dressel and Regling, Zwei ägyptische Funde altgriechischer Silbermünzen 37, 1927 p. 29, annot. Anm. 1 ❐

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. 1447 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 25, nr. 18 (According to Schönert-Geiss thraco-macedonian standard.)  ❐

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

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cn coin 8030, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8030 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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