cn type 21518

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

kithara (position: on the right)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Average Weight

15.14 g (1x)

Citation

Ashton et al., The Pixodarus Hoard (CH 9.421), 2002 p. 162, nr. 42  ❐

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. 80, nr. 342 (c. 355-340 BC., chian standard.)   ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 307, pic. 271.3  ❐

Daux, Guide de Thasos, Paris 1968 p. 187  ❐

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