cn coin 53850

Connected to Type

CN Type 20789 🔍

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

head of Pan (position: on the right)

Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

3.73 g

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1844,1008.93

Provenience: Purchased from: Thomas Purchased through: Sotheby's, 1844

Literature

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

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.) ❐

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cn coin 53850, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53850 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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