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cn coin 53896

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CN Type 21468 🔍

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
volute krater (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
3.69 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 04.637

Provenience: By date unknown: James Whittall Collection; by 1884: with Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 Wellington Street, Strand, London (auction of the James Whittall Collection, July 10ff., 1884, lot 326 [partial, not illustrated]); 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. 502); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren

Citation

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 nr. 862  ❐

Literature

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 37, nr. 16a (This type and type 20792 are summarized under No. 16.)  ❐

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

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cn coin 53896, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53896 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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