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cn type 255

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Dikaia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-476/475 BC

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Obverse
Legend
Δ
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Design
Cock standing right, holding worm in beak; within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm (triobol) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
Diameter
Max: 13.5 mm / Min: 11 mm
Average Weight
1.65 g (10x)
Axes
1 (1x) 6 (3x) 9 (1x) 11 (1x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 28-29, nr. 46-51  (III. series of the Thraco-Macedonian standard, triobol.) 

Literature

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168-181 (Reduced Chian standard, hemidrachm, c. 480-450 BC.) 

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. 1452

editions

cn.dicaea_thrace.1_ed.13  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 255, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/255 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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