cn coin 53882

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

cicada (position: )

Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

3.66 g

Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1937,0606.46

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 220, nr. 42 ❐

Literature

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 35, nr. 6, pl. 4 ❐

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 ❐

Daux, Guide de Thasos, Paris 1968 nr. 24, pl. 2 ❐

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