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cn coin 53894

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CN Type 20789 🔍

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
head of Pan (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
3.86 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 00.192

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. 864  ❐

Literature

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 307, nr. 271.7 ❐

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. 343-346 (c. 404-355 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 53894, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53894 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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