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cn coin 8059

Connected to Type

CN Type 51 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-476/475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Dik_0032_V1 🔍
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0032_R1 🔍
Design
Cock standing right, holding worm in beak; in dotted square within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm (triobol) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
11 mm
Weight
1.60 g
Owner

Koninklijk Kabinet van Munten, Penningen en Gesneden Stenen - Den Haag / Nationale Numismatische Collectie - Amsterdam, Amsterdam, nl ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Slg. Six 779

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: DIK_2R_58_028o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 27, nr. 32.2  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 20, nr. 17b  ❐

Literature

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

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 27-28, nr. 32-45, pl. 4-5 (III. series of the Thraco-Macedonian standard, triobol.)  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168-181 (Reduced Chian standard, Hemidrachm, c. 480-450 BC.)  ❐

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. 99, nr. 1452 ❐

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cn coin 8059, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8059 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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