cn type 51

Mint

Dikaia 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 492/490-476/475 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.

Reverse

Design

Cock standing right, holding worm in beak; within incuse square.

Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm (triobol) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Average Diameter

15 mm / 10.5 mm

Average Weight

1.77 g (27x)

Axes

3 (1x) 6 (1x) 9 (2x)

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 27-28, nr. 32-45, pl. 4-5 ❐

Literature

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 168-181 ❐

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. 1452 ❐

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cn type 51, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/51 [Last downloaded: 2022/08/08]

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