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cn coin 8203

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CN Type 274 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-476/475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΔΙ-ΚΑΙ
Design
Cock standing right.
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Reverse
Design
Head of bearded Herakles, right, wearing lion skin; in quadratum incusum.
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
0.57 g
Axis
2
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Auktionshaus Classical Numismatic Group

Reproduction Owner

commerce / im Handel, , []

Public Commentary

Nicht in Schönert-Geiss, Zuweisung an das thrakische Dikaia auf Grund der selben Motive bei den Trihemiobolen.

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 29, nr. 55-57 var ❐

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

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168 (Reduced Chian standard, c. 480-450 BC. Psoma isn\'t mentioning an obol, but in Abdera a coin with the same weight is called 12th-Hemihekta by her.)  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 8203, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8203 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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