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cn coin 54079

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CN Type 21514 🔍

Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c.404-355 BC

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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
corn-ear (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
15.34 g
Owner

Blackburn Museum, Blackburn, gb ❐

Citation

Daux, Guide de Thasos, Paris 1968 p. 185ff.  ❐

Hart and Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery (Blackburn, England), Sylloge nummorum graecorum. Volume VIII: The Hart collection, Blackburn Museum, Oxford ;  New York 1989 nr. 338  ❐

Literature

Ashton et al., The Pixodarus Hoard (CH 9.421), 2002 p. 163, nr. 40 ❐

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 ❐

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

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