cn type 26

Mint

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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