cn type 20900

Mint

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

silver 🔍

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]