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Drachm

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Issuer Thasos (Thracian Islands)
Type Standard circulation coins
Years 404 BC - 355 BC
Value Drachm (1)
Currency Chian-Rhodian drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 3.63 g
Diameter 14 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered, Incuse
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
556010
References West# 28
Allen Brown West; 1929. Fifth and Fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian Coast / Volume 40. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States.
, SNG Copenhagen# 1023
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes).
, CN type# 20793
Corpus Nummorum Online (https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/)
, Berlin# 15
Spemann (publisher). Beschreibung der antiken Münzen. Spemann, Berlin, Germany (3 volumes).
, HGC 6# 345
Oliver D. Hoover; 2010. Handbook of Coins of the Islands / Volume 6: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus) : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Bearded head of Dionysos left, wearing ivy wreath.

Reverse

Herakles, wearing lion skin, kneeling right, drawing bow; lyre to right; all within linear square in shallow square incuse.

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΘΑΣΙΟΝ

Mint

Thasos, Insula Thraciae, modern-day Island of Thasos, Greece

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Examples of the type

Picture 1 of the example of Drachm Picture 2 of the example of Drachm
© Münzkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 18244982
14 mm3.63 g 9h
Beschreibung (1888) p. 288, Nr. 15
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Picture 1 of the example of Drachm
© British Museum, 1958,0304.14
3.65 g 3h (see more)
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