cn type 20796
cn type 20796-0
cn type 20796-1
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cn type 20796

Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 404-355 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΘΑΣΙΟΝ
Design
Heracles kneeling right, wearing lion skin, drawing bow; all within linear square.
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Symbol
cicada (position: )
Type variations

1. Cicada in the middle to right

2. Cicada in the middle to left

3. Cicada on the bottom right

Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm (3x)
Average Weight
3.73 g (8x)
Axes
1 (1x) 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 (c. 404-355 BC.)  ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 307, nr. 271.1, pic. 271.1 ❐

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.54  🔍

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cn type 20796, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20796 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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