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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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