cn type 20888

Mint

Thasos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 404-355 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Silenus kneeling left, holding cantharus in right hand.
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Symbol

grain of barley (position: at the bottom left)

Reverse

Legend

ΘΑΣΙΩΝ

Design

Volute crater.
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Metrology

Denomination

Hemihekte 🔍

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

Max: 13 mm / Min: 12 mm

Average Weight

0.83 g (10x)

Axes

2 (1x) 3 (1x) 6 (2x) 12 (1x)

Citation

Picard, Monnaies et gravure monétaire à Thasos, 1987 pl. 40, pic. 15-16 ❐

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. 1030 ❐

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. 81, nr. 351 (Trihemiobol, c. 404-355 BC) ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 306, pic. 270.5 (hemihecte) ❐

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.27 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 20888, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20888 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]