cn coin 53895
- Connected to Type
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CN Type 20892 🔍
- Date
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c.404-355 BC
Classical Period 🔍
- Obverse
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- Design
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Head of bearded Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath.
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- Reverse
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- Legend
- ΘΑΣΙΟΝ
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- Design
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Heracles kneeling right, wearing lion skin, drawing bow; all within linear square.
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- Symbol
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lyre (position:
on the right)
- Owner
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Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston,
us
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Owner Inventory No.: 04.636
Provenience: By date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 501); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren
- Literature
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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, pic. 271.3 ❐Daux, Guide de Thasos, Paris 1968 p. 187 ❐
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- cn coin 53895, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53895 [Last downloaded: 2024/09/16]
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