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Legend

Mint

Hoard

Findspot

cn type 20788

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

owl (position: on the right)

Type variations

1. owl to r. or l.

Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

16 mm (1x)

Average Weight

3.56 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. 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, nr. 271.7 ❐

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.46 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 20788, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20788 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]