cn coin 53891

Connected to Type

CN Type 20797 🔍

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

(position: on the right)

Metrology

Denomination

didrachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

7.09 g

Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1934,0523.9

Citation

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

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 (c. 355-340 BC., macedonian standard.) ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 307, nr. 271.6, pic. 271.6 ❐

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

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