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Trihemiobol
| Issuer | Dikaia |
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| Year | 450 BC - 435 BC |
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| Value | Trihemiobol (1/4) |
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| Reverse description | Frontal bull's head depicted in high relief within a shallow incuse square, with prominent horns, large circular eyes, and a broad muzzle rendered in archaic style; above the bull's head, the single Greek letter delta (Δ) appears as the civic ethnic abbreviation for Dikaia. |
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| Reverse lettering | Δ |
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Dikaia was a small Thracian coastal settlement near the Chalcidic peninsula, close enough to Abdera that the two are sometimes confused in the literature. Its independent coinage was brief — almost certainly curtailed by growing Athenian pressure on Thracian minting communities during the Delian League's peak years, when Athens aggressively consolidated tribute-paying poleis and suppressed rival silver issues. A trihemiobol from Dikaia surviving at all is notable; the city's output was modest, and the SNG Ashmolean remains one of the few systematic reference points for its type.