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cn type 20793

Edition
cn.thasos.1_ed.51
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
lyre (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
14 mm (1x)
Average Weight
3.64 g (3x)
Axes
9 (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. 344-346 (c. 404-355 BC.)  ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 307, nr. 271.7, pic. 271.1 ❐

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.51  🔍

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