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cn coin 8042

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CN Type 42 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492-475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Dik_0023_V3 🔍
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0023_R3 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse Δ-Ι-Κ
Design
Bull's head, left; within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemistater (didrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 20 mm / Min: 19 mm
Weight
6.98 g
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.15677

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: DIK_2R_58_016

Citation

Naville, Sammlung des Großfürsten Alexander Michailowitsch und Arthur J. Evans 4, Genua 1922 pl. 19, pic. 483  ❐

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 pl. 91, pic. 2358  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 23, nr. 30a  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 26, nr. 23.6  ❐

Literature

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

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 26, nr. 22, pl. 4 (Didrachm, III. series 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. 1449 ❐

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

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cn coin 8042, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8042 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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