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cn coin 8064

Connected to Type

CN Type 51 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-476/475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Dik_0035_V4 🔍
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0035_R2 🔍
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
13 mm
Weight
2.07 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 04 632

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: DIK_2R_58_032o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 27, nr. 35.1  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 21, nr. 19c  ❐

Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 nr. 488  ❐

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 pl. 44, pic. 801  ❐

Literature

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 8064, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8064 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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