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cn coin 53888

Connected to Type

CN Type 21466 🔍

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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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
didrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
6.94 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: RPK,p102C.1.Tha

Provenience: Bequeathed by: Richard Payne Knight, 1824

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 220, nr. 40  ❐

Literature

Daux, Guide de Thasos, Paris 1968 p. 187, nr. 31, pl. 2 ❐

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 ❐

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 ❐

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

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cn coin 53888, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53888 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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