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cn type 265

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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
hekte 🔍  
Standard: Milesian
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
10.1 mm (1x)
Average Weight
2.63 g (2x)
Public Commentary

Psoma, Tzamalis u.a. ordnen diesen Typ Dikaia zu, dies ist aber aber nicht zwingend. Es besteht eine Ähnlichkeit mit ionischen Prägungen. Nach Psoma milesischer Standard.

Citation

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. 1443  ❐

Tzamalis, Anastasios, Some of the acquisitions of the alpha Bank during 2000. 19, 2000 nr. 12  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168, annot. 11  ❐

Wartenberg, Die Geburt des Münzgeldes: Die frühe Elektronprägung, Wien 2016 p. 39, pic. 25, annot. 45  ❐

editions

cn.dicaea_thrace.1_ed.1  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 265, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/265 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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