Dikaia, stater (CN type 21)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 540/535-492/490 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thracestater in silver struck at Dikaia in Thrace dated ca. 540/535-492/490 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 21. Obverse: Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Reverse: Incuse square divided into four triangles with uneven surfaces.
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
- Recorded findspots
- Damanhūr
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/21
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 21
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. 23-24, nr. 7-14, pl. 3
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 97, nr. 1446
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 179-180
Research required
- Legends not transcribed in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution