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cn type 20747

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Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 520-510 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Nude Silenus advancing right, carrying off in his arms a nymph raising her right hand in protest.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Pecularities

Of this type, as of some other Thasian types, there are many modern forgeries in circulation.

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Diameter
Max: 18 mm / Min: 14.5 mm
Average Weight
3.77 g (52x)
Axes
12 (2x)
Citation

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 303-304, nr. 268.3  (Trite, 520-510 BC) 

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. 79, nr. 332 (c. 525-463 BC; drachm.) 

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.2  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 20747, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20747 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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