Thasos, hemidrachm (CN type 20908)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 404-355 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thracehemidrachm in silver struck at Thasos in Thrace dated ca. 404-355 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 20908. Obverse: Male, youthful head wearing taenia, right. Reverse: Heracles kneeling right, wearing lion skin, drawing bow.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver
- Denomination
- hemidrachm
- Recorded diameter
- 13 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 1.82 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Thasos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Weight standard
- Chian
Design
- Obverse type
- Male, youthful head wearing taenia, right.
- Reverse type
- Heracles kneeling right, wearing lion skin, drawing bow.
- Reverse legend
- ΘΑΣΙΟΝ
Identification
- Period
- Classical Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20908
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 20908
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. 81, nr. 347
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 307, pic. 271.4
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution