cn coin 53889

Connected to Type

CN Type 21465 🔍

Mint

Thasos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 355 - 340 BC

Classical Period 🔍

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

7.01 g

Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1841,B.482

Provenience: Purchased from: Thomas Burgon, 1841

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 220, nr. 39 ❐

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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