Dikaia, Hemistater (didrachm) (CN type 45)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 492/490-476/475 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceHemistater (didrachm) in silver struck at Dikaia in Thrace dated ca. 492/490-476/475 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 45. Obverse: Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Reverse: Cock standing right within incuse square.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver
- Denomination
- Hemistater (didrachm)
- Recorded diameter
- 16–18 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 7.21 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Dikaia
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Weight standard
- reduced Chian
Design
- Obverse type
- Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
- Reverse type
- Cock standing right within incuse square.
Identification
- Period
- Classical Period
- Recorded findspots
- Skióni (Σκιωνή)
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/45
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 45
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. 26, nr. 27, pl. 4
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 1450
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 168
Research required
- Legends not transcribed in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution