cn type 278

Mint

Dikaia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 480-450 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΔΙΚΑ

Design

Cock standing right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΔΙΚΑ

Design

Ethnic divided in the four fields of an incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

Obol 🔍
Standard: reduced Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

10 mm (2x)

Average Weight

0.62 g (7x)

Axes

1 (1x) 6 (1x)

Literature

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168 (Reduced Chian standard, c. 480-450 BC, weight would fit a 12ths-Hemihekta in Abdera.) ❐

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. 1454 ❐

editions

cn.dicaea_thrace.1_ed.19 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 278, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/278 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]