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cn coin 8089

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CN Type 54 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-476/475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Dik_0053_V1 🔍
Design
Cock standing right; circle with a dot above. Short ground line.
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Reverse
Die
Dik_0053_R2 🔍
Design
Head of Heracles, right, wearing lion skin; within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Trihemiobol (1 1/2 obol) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
9 mm
Weight
0.66 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 1922,1020.3

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: DIK_2R_58_054o/r

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 29, nr. 53.2, pl. 5  ❐

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 25, nr. 36c, pl. 2, pic. 36  ❐

Forrer, The Weber Collection. Greek coins: Macedon - Thrace - Thessaly - North Western, Central and Southern Greece 2, London 1924 pl. 91, pic. 2363  ❐

Literature

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

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 29, nr. 52-53 (III. series of the Thraco-Macedonian standard, trihemiobol.)  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168-181 (Reduced Chian standard, Trihemiobol, 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. 1453 ❐

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cn coin 8089, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8089 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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