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cn coin 53886

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CN Type 21465 🔍

Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 390 - 310 BC

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Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Dionysus, right, 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
club (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
didrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
7.03 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1934,0523.6

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 220, nr. 38  ❐

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. 81, nr. 353 ❐

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cn coin 53886, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53886 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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