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cn coin 8076

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CN Type 51 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-476/475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Dik_0045_V9 🔍
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0045_R7 🔍
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
Max: 15 mm / Min: 12 mm
Weight
2.03 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: R 1364

Provenience: Fonds général

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: DIK_2R_58_043o/r

Public Commentary

Liegt in Paris als Selymbria.

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 28, nr. 45.4  ❐

Bompois, Collection Ferdinand Bompois = M. H. Hoffmann, Auktionskatalog, Paris 16. Januar 1882, 1882 nr. 604  ❐

Head, Historia Numorum, Chicago 1967 nr. 252  ❐

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 pl. 91, pic. 2361  ❐

Bourgey, Monnaies (Sammlung Cbandon de Biaille), Paris 1959-06-17 nr. 195  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 22, nr. 25a, pl. 2  ❐

Weber, On some Unpublished or Rare Greek Coins 16, 1896 p. 12, nr. 18, pl. 1, pic. 15  ❐

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 8076, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8076 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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