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cn coin 55253

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CN Type 20756 🔍

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Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 520-510 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Two dolphins swimming on top of each other in opposite directions.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
1/4 Hekte 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
7 mm
Weight
0.57 g
Axis
12
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Lanz 97 (22.05.2000) 158, Fotoarchiv Lübke und Wiedemann.

Literature

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 303-304, nr. 268.5 (1/4 Hekte, 510-510 BC)  ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Copenhagen. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum. Part 7: Thrace 2: Odessus - Sestos. Islands. Kings and Dynasts 7, Copenhagen 1943 nr. 1020-1021, pl. 20 (c.463-411 BC.)  ❐

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. 79f., nr. 337 (Hemiobol, 435-411 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 55253, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_55253 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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