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cn coin 8212

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CN Type 281 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 480-450 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Cock standing right.
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Reverse
Legend
Δ-Ι-Κ-Α
Design
Ethnic divided in the four fields of an incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
10.5 mm
Weight
0.71 g
Axis
5
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: SHH 5084; Gorny & Mosch 212 (04.03.2013) 1247

Literature

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 v. Chr., Psoma mentions for Abdera a 12ths-Hemihekta with the same weight.)  ❐

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. 1454 ❐

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cn coin 8212, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8212 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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