Ancient Coins

GREEK COINS, Greek Coins, Dikaia (?), Fifth-Euboeic Stater, early 5th century, cephalopod emerging left from exergual line, rev. incuse square of irregular mill-sail pattern, 3.24g (for type cf. HN pp.213-14, cf. Traité pp.1126, 1586-95; cf. SNG ANS 243; cf. AMNG III, pl. 13, 16-27; cf. Price, Coins of the Macedonians, pl. 5, 27). Bright appearance, good very fine; apparently unpublished, UNIQUE (£400-500)

Dikaia-of-the-Eretrians, as it was known to distinguish it from the Dikaia in Thrace, is one of the few towns to make its Euboeic origin explicit by depicting an Eretrian cephalopod, variously interpreted as octopus or sepia