cn coin 51720
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cn coin 51720

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CN Type 21114 🔍

Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

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
K (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
gold 🔍  
Weight
3.95 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: The New York Sale eA 27 (04.01.2012) lot 245

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. 78, nr. 327 (c. 404-355 BC., chian standard.)  ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 317, nr. 271.5 ❐

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cn coin 51720, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51720 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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