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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Dikaia |
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| Year | 480 BC - 450 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Head of a griffin facing right, rendered in archaic style with pronounced beak, large eye, and elaborately detailed feathered neck and breast; the plumage is depicted as rows of overlapping pellets and incised feather lines, conveying strong naturalistic energy. The type is characteristic of the early classical coinage of Dikaia in Macedon, a region known for its rich iconographic borrowings from Thracian and Greek artistic traditions. The flan is irregular and slightly broad, typical of hand-struck silver coinage of this period. |
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| Mintage | ND (480 BC - 450 BC) |
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Dikaia was a small Thracian coastal settlement — its exact location debated, though most scholarship places it near the Chalcidic peninsula. The city struck its own silver coinage during a window when regional mints proliferated under the loose commercial pressures of Aegean trade, before Macedonian consolidation gradually absorbed the smaller issuing authorities of the north. The hemidrachm denomination itself served short-distance exchange, the kind of transaction a larger coin would have made awkward.
The reference spread — Weber, McClean, Boston MFA, Copenhagen — reflects how thinly these pieces are distributed across collections worldwide. No single hoard has defined the type.