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cn coin 8156

Connected to Type

CN Type 265 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 540/535-492/490 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Herakles, left, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
hekte 🔍  
Standard: Milesian
Material
electrum 🔍  
Weight
2.61 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: CNG, Triton VIII, Lot 248, 11.01.2005

Reproduction Owner

commerce / im Handel, , []

Public Commentary

Psoma, Tzamalis u.a. ordnen diesen Typ Dikaia zu, dies ist aber aber nicht zwingend. Es besteht eine Ähnlichkeit mit ionischen Prägungen. Nach Psoma milesischer Standard.

Citation

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168, annot. 11  ❐

Literature

Tzamalis, Anastasios, Some of the acquisitions of the alpha Bank during 2000. 19, 2000 p. 12 ❐

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. 97, nr. 1443 ❐

Tzamalis, Anastasios, Some of the acquisitions of the alpha Bank during 2000. 19, 2000 nr. 12 ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168, annot. 11 ❐

Wartenberg, Die Geburt des Münzgeldes: Die frühe Elektronprägung, Wien 2016 p. 39, pic. 25, annot. 45 ❐

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cn coin 8156, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8156 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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