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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) 🔍
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/types/26 [Last downloaded: 2025/07/12]
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