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Trihemiobol
| Issuer | Dikaia |
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| Year | 480 BC - 450 BC |
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| Value | Trihemiobol (1/4) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΔΙΚΑ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Dikaia was a small Thracian coastal settlement — its exact site debated, likely near Abdera — that struck its own silver coinage during the fifth century despite being a minor polis of no regional dominance. The trihemiobol denomination itself, worth one and a half obols, served the granular transactional needs of a port economy where small-denomination silver moved through market exchanges that larger coins couldn't efficiently serve.
The Schönert-Geiss corpus on Bisanthe-region coinage leaves this type without an assigned catalog number, suggesting either extreme rarity or ongoing scholarly uncertainty about attribution.