Dikaia, Distater (CN type 2)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 540/535-492/490 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceDistater in silver struck at Dikaia in Thrace dated ca. 540/535-492/490 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 2. Obverse: Head of bearded Herakles, left, wearing lion skin. Reverse: Incuse square.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver
- Denomination
- Distater
- Recorded diameter
- 24 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 18.36 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Dikaia
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Weight standard
- reduced Aeginetan
Design
- Obverse type
- Head of bearded Herakles, left, wearing lion skin.
- Reverse type
- Incuse square.
Identification
- Period
- Archaic Period
- Recorded findspots
- (Arab Republic of Egypt) Ägypten
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/2
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 2
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 23, nr. 1, pl. 3
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 97, nr. 1444
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 179-181
Research required
- Legends not transcribed in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution