cn type 20899
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cn type 20899

Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 200-180 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΘΑΣΙΟΝ
Design
Club and ethnic within laurel wreath.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 15 mm / Min: 14 mm
Average Weight
1.65 g (16x)
Axes
1 (1x) 10 (1x) 12 (5x)
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. 81f., nr. 355 (c. 200-180 BC, macedonian standard, false denonmination)  ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 310f., pic. 279 (early 2nd century B.C.)  ❐

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.107  🔍

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cn type 20899, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20899 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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