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cn coin 8044

Connected to Type

CN Type 42 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492-475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Dik_0026_V6 🔍
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0026_R4 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΔΙ-Κ-ΑΙ
Design
Bull's head, left; within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemistater (didrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
19 mm
Weight
7.08 g
Owner

Nationalmuseet, Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, Kopenhagen, dk ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: DIK_2R_58_018

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 26, nr. 26.2, pl. 4  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 24, nr. 32b, pl. 2  ❐

Westermark and Nilsson, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Sweden 2 The collection of the Royal Coin Cabinet, National Museum of Monetary History, Stockholm Pt. 2 Thrace - Euboia The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 1980 nr. 551  ❐

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 8044, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8044 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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