cn type 22
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cn type 22

Mint
Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 540/535-492/490 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΔΙΚ
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Distater 🔍  
Standard: reduced Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 24 mm / Min: 21 mm
Average Weight
19.26 g (2x)
Public Commentary

Lesung der VS-Legende auf den überprüfbaren Exemplaren unsicher.

Citation

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 23, nr. 4-6  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 23, nr. 4-6  (According to Schönert-Geiss thraco-macedonian standard.)  ❐

Literature

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-180 (Reduced aeginetan standard, dated c. 530-480 BC.)  ❐

editions

cn.dicaea_thrace.1_ed.3  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 22, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/22 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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