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cn type 12987

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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
Legend reverse ΘΑΣΙΟΝ
Design
Heracles kneeling right, wearing lion skin, drawing bow.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm (1x)
Average Weight
3.14 g (1x)
Axes
6 (1x)
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. 80, nr. 343-346 (c. 404-355 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. 1023-1026 (c. 411-350 BC.)  ❐

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.60  🔍

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cn type 12987, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12987 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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