cn type 21572
cn type 21572-0
cn type 21572-1
Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn type 21572

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
laurel-spray (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm (1x)
Average Weight
3.59 g (2x)
Axes
9 (1x)
Citation

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 307, nr. 271.7  ❐

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. 343-345 (c. 404-355 BC.)  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 nr. 23 ❐

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cn type 21572, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/21572 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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