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cn coin 54686

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CN Type 21588 🔍

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Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

404-340 BC

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Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, 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
grape (position: Central)
Metrology
Denomination
Material
Weight
2.83 g
Axis
2
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us

Owner Inventory No.: 1967.152.231

Public Commentary

This coin gives cause for doubt. The obverse die is the same like the coin https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10317490f, which was included in Henri Hoffmann's collection of modern forgeries (no. 50: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10462664v/f16.item). The declared fake obverse and stylistic features require further examination of the original coin. We would like to thank Ilya Prokopo for the consultation and important information in July 2024.

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. 78, nr. 329

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. 78, nr. 329

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cn coin 54686, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_54686 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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