cn type 25

Mint

Dikaia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 540/535-492/490 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse

Design

Incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

Trite 🔍
Standard: reduced Aeginetan

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

12.5 mm (1x)

Average Weight

2.86 g (1x)

Public Commentary

Too heavy for the drachms mentioned by Psoma 2015, 2.10-1.86g.

Citation

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. 98, nr. 1447 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 25, nr. 18 (According to Schönert-Geiss thraco-macedonian standard.) ❐

Literature

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-181 (Reduced aeginetan standard, drachm? Trite not mentioned.) ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 25, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/25 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]