cn coin 53863

Connected to Type

CN Type 20788 🔍

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

owl (position: on the right)

Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

3.66 g

Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: BNK,G.70

Provenience: Donated by: Bank of England, 1877

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, nr. 271.7 ❐

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cn coin 53863, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53863 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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