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cn coin 18579

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CN Type 20798 🔍

Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c.404-355 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Dionysus, right, 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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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
didrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
19 mm
Weight
7.04 g
Axis
3
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18244912

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

Citation

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 45, nr. 47c, pl. 6  ❐

Literature

Daux, Guide de Thasos, Paris 1968 p. 187, nr. 31, pl. 2 ❐

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. 81, nr. 353 ❐

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. 81, nr. 353 (c. 355-340 BC., macedonian standard, div. monogram.)  ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 307, nr. 271.6, pic. 271.6 ❐

Daux, Guide de Thasos, Paris 1968 p. 187, nr. 31, pl. 2 (different monogram)  ❐

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