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cn coin 53849

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CN Type 20891 🔍

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
shield (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
14.83 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1847,1101.64

Provenience: Baron Knobelsdorf 1847

Reproduction Owner

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: GPN 93 (Welz 1966)

Literature

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 ❐

Web Reference: https://mk-bochum.ikmk.net/object?id=ID3138 ❐

Web Reference: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1847-1101-64 ❐

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cn coin 53849, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53849 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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