Thasos, bronze (CN type 20904)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca.200-180 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceCoin type in bronze struck at Thasos in Thrace dated ca.200-180 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 20904. Obverse: Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath. Reverse: Club and ethnic within laurel wreath.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 11 mm (from 3 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 1.56 g (mean of 14 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Thasos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
Design
- Obverse type
- Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
- Reverse type
- Club and ethnic within laurel wreath.
- Reverse legend
- ΘΑΣΙΟ/ΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Classical Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20904
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 20904
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Research required
- 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. 85, nr. 374
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 310f., pic. 279
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution