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cn coin 51777

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CN Type 20786 🔍

Mint
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
lizard (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
3.51 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung Auktion 141, lot 82

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. 80, nr. 343-346 (c. 404-355 BC.)  ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Copenhagen. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum. Part 7: Thrace 2: Odessus - Sestos. Islands. Kings and Dynasts 7, Copenhagen 1943 nr. 1023-1026 (c. 411-350 BC.)  ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 307, pic. 271.7 ❐

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cn coin 51777, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51777 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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