cn type 54

Edition

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Mint

Dikaia 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

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

Obverse

Design

Cock standing right.
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Symbol

Θ (position: above)

Reverse

Design

Head of bearded Herakles, right, wearing lion skin; in quadratum incusum.
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Metrology

Denomination

Trihemiobol (1 1/2 obol) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 11 mm / Min: 9 mm

Average Weight

0.83 g (14x)

Axes

2 (1x) 3 (2x) 4 (1x) 5 (1x) 6 (1x) 11 (1x)

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 29, nr. 52-53  (III. series of the Thraco-Macedonian standard, trihemiobol.)  ❐

Literature

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

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. 1453  ❐

editions

cn.dicaea_thrace.1_ed.14 🔍

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cn type 54, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/54 [Last downloaded: 2025/07/15]

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