cn type 54

Mint

Dikaia 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

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

Obverse

Design

Cock standing right.

Symbol

Θ (position: above)

Reverse

Design

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

Metrology

Denomination

Trihemiobol (1 1/2 obol) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver ❐

Average Diameter

10.33 mm (6x)

Average Weight

0.81 g (7x)

Axes

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

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975 p. 29, nr. 52-53 ❐

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. 1453 ❐

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cn type 54, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/54 [Last downloaded: 2021/12/04]

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