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cn type 26

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Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492-475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Design
Bull\'s head, left, within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemistater (didrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
20 mm (1x)
Average Weight
7.30 g (1x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 25-26, nr. 21, pl. 4  (Only one die known. Didrachm, III. series of the Thraco-Macedonian standard according to Schönert-Geiss.)  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168  (Hemistater, reduced chian standard, 480-450 BC.)  ❐

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cn type 26, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/26 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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