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cn coin 8215

Connected to Type

CN Type 287 🔍

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 450-430 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
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Design
Cock standing right.
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Reverse
Design
Scallop shell in incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
9 mm
Weight
0.55 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Auktionshaus Numismatik Naumann, Auction 43, lot 159

Reproduction Owner

commerce / im Handel, , []

Literature

Robinson, E. S. G.; Ashton, R.; Ireland, S., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum Volume V . Ashmolean Museum Oxford. 5, London 1976 nr. 2255 ❐

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. 1455 (450-430 BC.)  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-181 (Reduced Chian standard, weight is equivalent to a 12th-Hemihekta in Abdera.)  ❐

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cn coin 8215, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8215 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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