Thasos, Trite (CN type 20747)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 520-510 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceTrite in silver struck at Thasos in Thrace dated ca. 520-510 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 20747. Obverse: Nude Silenus advancing right, carrying off in his arms a nymph raising her right hand in protest. Reverse: Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver
- Denomination
- Trite
- Recorded diameter
- 14.5–18 mm (from 23 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 3.77 g (mean of 52 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Thasos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
Design
- Obverse type
- Nude Silenus advancing right, carrying off in his arms a nymph raising her right hand in protest.
- Reverse type
- Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
Identification
- Period
- Archaic Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20747
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 20747
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 303-304, nr. 268.3
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 79, nr. 332
Research required
- Legends not transcribed in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution