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Dikaia, stater — Incuse square divided into four triangles with uneven surfaces (CN type 21)

DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.

Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

c. 540/535–492/490 BC

Issuing entity

Thrace

Stater in silver struck at Dikaia in Thrace, dated c. 540/535–492/490 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 21 (period: Archaic Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Reverse: Incuse square divided into four triangles with uneven surfaces. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 9.7 g (mean of 9 recorded specimens) and a diameter of 18–19 mm (from 6 recorded specimens). The corpus assigns the type to the reduced Aeginetan weight standard. Recorded findspots: Damanhūr. Published references cited by the corpus: Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Bisanthe, Dikaia, Selymbria, Berlin 1975, p. 23-24, nr. 7-14, pl. 3; 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. 97, nr. 1446; Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015, p. 179-180.

Evidence at a glance

Linked sources
4
Photograph views
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Catalogue references
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Physical characteristics

Material
silver
Denomination
stater
Recorded diameter
18–19 mm (from 6 recorded specimens)
Recorded mean weight
9.7 g (mean of 9 recorded specimens)

Technical characteristics

Mint
Dikaia
Region
Thrace
Authority type
City
Weight standard
reduced Aeginetan

Design

Obverse type
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
Reverse type
Incuse square divided into four triangles with uneven surfaces.

Identification

Period
Archaic Period
How to identify
Check the mint name or ethnic, the reverse type and the legend together, then compare weight and module; types from the same mint often differ only in legend arrangement, magistrate names or control marks.
Recorded findspots
Damanhūr
Type corpus record
https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/21
Type corpus identifier
CN type 21

Documentation checklist

Denomination
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Issue or mint date
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Material
Recorded
Weight
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Mint or printer
Recorded
Mint or printer mark
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Catalogue reference
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Recorded

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Catalogue references

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