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cn type 20900

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Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 180 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath with berries.
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Reverse
Legend
ΘΑΣΙΩΝ
Design
Nude Heracles standing facing, head left, resting right hand on club, left hand on hip, holding lion skin in left arm.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: reduced Attic
Material
Diameter
Max: 20 mm / Min: 18 mm
Average Weight
4.07 g (6x)
Axes
11 (1x) 12 (3x)
Citation

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 59, nr. 1-5  (Class A-C, c. 180 BC) 

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. 83, nr. 361

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.109  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 20900, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20900 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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