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cn coin 13460

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CN Type 20795 🔍

Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 404-355 BC

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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
cornucopia (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
3.72 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1966.453

Provenience: Jean et Marie Delepierre 826

Citation

Nicolet, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des médailles, Collection Jean et Marie Delepierre, Paris 1983 nr. 826  ❐

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. 343-345 (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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cn coin 13460, in: Corpus Nummorum, http://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_13460 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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