cn coin 53893

Connected to Type

CN Type 20796 🔍

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

cicada (position: )

Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

17 mm

Weight

3.74 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 00.191
Provenience: By date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren; 1900: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren

Citation

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 nr. 860  ❐

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. 343 (c. 404-355 BC.)   ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 307, nr. 271.1, pic. 271.1  ❐

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