cn coin 13785

Connected to Type

CN Type 20900 🔍

Mint

Thasos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 180 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath with berries.
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Reverse

Legend

ΘΑΣΙΩΝ

Design

Nude Heracles standing facing, head left, resting right hand on club, left hand on hip, holding lion skin in left arm.
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Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍
Standard: reduced Attic

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

4.08 g

Owner

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

Provenience: Fonds général 2059

Literature

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 59, nr. 1-5 (Class A-C, c. 180 BC) ❐

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. 83, nr. 361 ❐

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cn coin 13785, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_13785 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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