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cn coin 6589

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CN Type 20759 🔍

Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 404-355 BC

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Obverse
Design
Two janiform heads of Silens.
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Reverse
Legend
ΘΑΣΙ
Design
Two volute craters within incuse square; right one inverted.
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Metrology
Denomination
hekte 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
14 mm
Weight
1.74 g
Axis
9
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18245279

Provenience: 1864/28678.6 - Veräusserer Webster

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 290, nr. 38  ❐

Friedländer and Sallet, Das Königliche Münzkabinet: Geschichte und Übersicht der Sammlung nebst erklärender Beschreibung der auf Schautischen ausgelegten Auswahl, Berlin 1878 nr. 323  ❐

Literature

Picard, Monnaies et gravure monétaire à Thasos, 1987 p. 155 f., nr. 11-12, pl. 40 ❐

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. 1028 ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 305-306, nr. 270.4, pic. 270 (Hecte.)  ❐

Picard, Monnaies et gravure monétaire à Thasos, 1987 p. 155-156, nr. 11-12, pl. 40, pic. 11-14 (Hecte, light hemidrachm.)  ❐

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. 81, nr. 348 (Triobol or Hemidrachm, 404-355 BC)  ❐

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