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cn type 42

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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
Legend
ΔΙΚ(Α,ΑΙ)
Design
Bull\'s head, left, within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemistater (didrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 22 mm / Min: 19 mm
Average Weight
7.11 g (10x)
Axes
5 (2x) 6 (1x) 7 (1x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 26, nr. 22, pl. 4  (Didrachm, III. series of the Thraco-Macedonian standard.)  ❐

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. 98, nr. 1449  ❐

Literature

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168 (Hemistater, reduced chian standard, c. 480-450 BC.)  ❐

editions

cn.dicaea_thrace.1_ed.8  🔍

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cn type 42, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/42 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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