cn coin 21269

Connected to Type

CN Type 20895 🔍

Mint

Thasos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c.404-355 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of bearded Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse

Legend

ΘΑΣΙΟΝ

Design

Heracles kneeling right, wearing lion skin, drawing bow; all within linear square.
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Symbol

grape (position: on the right)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

23 mm

Weight

15.18 g

Axis

10

Owner

Martin von Wagner Museum, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: Ka 1273 = H 6640
Provenience: Ex Coll. Herbert Wellhöfer = Peus Auction 369, lot 105, 31.10.2001 = Peus 357, 28.10.1998, lot 262.

Hoard

Pixodarus Hoard

Citation

Ashton et al., The Pixodarus Hoard (CH 9.421), 2002 p. 163, nr. 41, pl. 21  ❐

Literature

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 pl. 5, pic. 33A  ❐

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 80, nr. 342 (c. 355-340 BC., chian standard.)   ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 307  ❐

Daux, Guide de Thasos, Paris 1968 p. 187  ❐

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