cn type 21468

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

volute krater (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

16 mm (1x)

Average Weight

3.69 g (1x)

Citation

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 37, nr. 16a  (This type and type 20792 are summarized under No. 16.)  ❐

Literature

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 306f., pic. 271  ❐

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cn type 21468, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/21468 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/16]

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