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cn coin 53893

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CN Type 20796 🔍

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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Symbol
cicada (position: )
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm
Weight
3.74 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 00.191

Provenience: By date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren; 1900: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren

Citation

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 nr. 860  ❐

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. 80, nr. 343 (c. 404-355 BC.)  ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 307, nr. 271.1, pic. 271.1 ❐

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cn coin 53893, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53893 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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