cn type 20786

Edition

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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

lizard (position: on the right)

Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 17 mm / Min: 15 mm

Average Weight

3.77 g (8x)

Axes

1 (2x)

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.)   ❐

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

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.44 🔍

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cn type 20786, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20786 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/26]

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