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cn coin 8033

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CN Type 26 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492-475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Dik_0021_V1 🔍
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0021_R1 🔍
Design
Bull's head, left; within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemistater (didrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
20 mm
Weight
7.30 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Provenience: de Luynes 1767

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: DIK_2R_58_012

Citation

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 nr. 29a, pl. 2, pic. 29  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 25 f., nr. 21, pl. 4  ❐

Bompois, Lettre à M. Waddington ... sur quelques monnaies anépigraphes attribuées indûment à la ville de Maronea en Thrace, Paris 1878 p. 274, nr. 2  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1769, pl. 56, pic. 11  ❐

Babelon, Catalogue de la collection de Luynes: Monnaies greques 2, Paris 1925 pl. 67, pic. 1767  ❐

Literature

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 25-26, nr. 21, pl. 4 (Only one die known. Didrachm, III. series of the Thraco-Macedonian standard according to Schönert-Geiss.)  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168 (Hemistater, reduced chian standard, 480-450 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 8033, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8033 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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