cn type 2

Mint

Dikaia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 540/535-492/490 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of bearded Herakles, left, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse

Design

Incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

Distater 🔍
Standard: reduced Aeginetan

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

24 mm (1x)

Average Weight

18.36 g (1x)

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 23, nr. 1, pl. 3 (Only one specimen of this type is known. According to Schönert-Geiss thraco-macedonian standard.) ❐

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. 97, nr. 1444 ❐

Literature

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-181 (Reduced aeginetan standard, dated 530-480 BC.) ❐

editions

cn.dicaea_thrace.1_ed.4 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 2, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/2 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]