cn coin 53892

Connected to Type

CN Type 21458 🔍

Mint

Thasos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 390 - 380 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

swastika (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

25 mm

Weight

15.08 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 58.309

Provenience: By date unknown: G. Locker-Lampson Collection (E. S. G. Robinson, Catalogue, no. 138); by date unknown: R. Cyril Lockett Collection (SNG Lockett, 1938, no. 1225); by 1958: with Glendining & Co., Ltd., 7 Blenheim Street, New Bond Street, London, W. 1 (Glendining auction of the Lockett Collection, part 6, February 12-13, 1958, lot 1142); purchased at the Glendining auction on behalf of MFA by A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd., 3 Robert Street, Adelphi, London, W.C. 2; purchased by MFA from A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd., March 13, 1958, for £ 5,354/8/0 (this is the total price of 58.301-58.313) <br>

Literature

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

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cn coin 53892, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53892 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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