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Trihemiobol
| Issuer | Dikaia |
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| Year | 500 BC - 450 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Rooster standing right in profile, rendered in archaic Greek style with boldly struck relief. The bird's plumage, wing, and characteristic tail feathers are well articulated within the compact flan. Partial Greek legend ΔΙΚΑ appears in the left field, identifying the issuing city of Dikaia. The figure occupies nearly the full surface of the coin, demonstrating the characteristic early fifth-century Thracian minting tradition. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΔΙΚΑ |
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Dikaia was a small Thracian coastal settlement near the Chalcidic peninsula, almost certainly a colony of Eretria. Its independent coinage is extremely rare, a product of perhaps a generation or two of civic autonomy before the region fell increasingly under Macedonian and later Athenian influence. The AMNG III#8 reference places this piece among a tiny series documented by Pick at the turn of the twentieth century, with surviving specimens numbering in the single digits across institutional collections.