cn coin 53879

Connected to Type

CN Type 21461 🔍

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

grape (position: Central)

Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

gold 🔍

Weight

3.92 g

Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1921,0412.24

Provenience: Purchased from: Spink & Son Ltd, 1921

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 ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 306f., pic. 271 ❐

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cn coin 53879, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53879 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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