cn coin 53895

Connected to Type

CN Type 20892 🔍

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

lyre (position: on the right)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

25 mm

Weight

14.67 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 04.636

Provenience: By date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 501); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren

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. 342 (c. 355-340 BC., chian standard.) ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 307, pic. 271.3 ❐

Daux, Guide de Thasos, Paris 1968 p. 187 ❐

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cn coin 53895, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53895 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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