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cn coin 17494

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CN Type 20894 🔍

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Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

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
club (position: on the right) head of lion facing (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
15.26 g
Axis
7
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18215383

Provenience: 1873 Fox - Vorbesitzer Loscombe

Citation

Friedländer and Sallet, Das Königliche Münzkabinet: Geschichte und Übersicht der Sammlung nebst erklärender Beschreibung der auf Schautischen ausgelegten Auswahl, Berlin 1878 nr. 307  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 287, nr. 66, pl. 7  ❐

Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk, Berlin 1924 nr. 486, pl. 22  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 nr. 33 A, pl. 5  ❐

Kraay and Hirmer, Greek coins, London 1966 p. 335, nr. 439, pl. 141  ❐

Schultz, Antike Münzen: Bildheft zur Ausstellung des Münzkabinetts in der Antikensammlung im Pergamonmuseum, Berlin 1997 nr. 71  ❐

Literature

Kraay, Archaic and Classical Greek coins, New York 1976 nr. 522-523, pl. 29 ❐

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 ❐

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cn coin 17494, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_17494 [Last downloaded: 2026/05/18]

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