cn coin 54687

Connected to Type

CN Type 21589 🔍

Mint

Thasos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

404-340 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Countermark

Circular countermark with grape on neck.

Reverse

Legend

ΘΑΣΙΟΝ

Design

Heracles kneeling right, wearing lion skin, drawing bow; all within linear square.
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Symbol

Σ (position: on the right)

Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍

Material

gold 🔍

Weight

3.43 g

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1958,0304.15

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 ❐

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cn coin 54687, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_54687 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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