



cn type 51
- Date
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c. 492/490-476/475 BC
Classical Period 🔍
- Obverse
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- Design
- Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
- Reverse
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- Design
- Cock standing right, holding worm in beak; within incuse square.
- Metrology
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- Average Diameter
- 15 mm / 10.5 mm
- Average Weight
- 1.77 g (27x)
- Axes
- 3 (1x) 6 (1x) 9 (2x)
- Citation
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Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 27-28, nr. 32-45, pl. 4-5 ❐
- Literature
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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 ❐
- Cite this record:
- cn type 51, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/51 [Last downloaded: 2022/08/08]
- License:
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