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cn coin 21269

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CN Type 20895 🔍

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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
grape (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
15.18 g
Axis
10
Owner

Martin von Wagner Museum, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, de

Owner Inventory No.: Ka 1273 = H 6640

Provenience: Ex Coll. Herbert Wellhöfer = Peus Auction 369, lot 105, 31.10.2001 = Peus 357, 28.10.1998, lot 262.

Hoard

Pixodarus Hoard

Citation

Ashton et al., The Pixodarus Hoard (CH 9.421), 2002 p. 163, nr. 41, pl. 21 

Literature

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

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 21269, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21269 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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