cn type 49

Mint

Dikaia 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 492/490-476/475 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse

Legend

ΔΙΚ

Design

Cock standing right within incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

Tetarte (drachm) 🔍
Standard: reduced Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

16 mm (1x)

Average Weight

3.60 g (1x)

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 27, nr. 31, pl. 4 (Drachm, 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. 1451 ❐

Literature

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168-181 (Quarter-staers, reduced Chian standard, c. 480-450 BC.) ❐

editions

cn.dicaea_thrace.1_ed.11 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 49, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/49 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]