Thasos, Chalkous (CN type 20930)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 300 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceChalkous in bronze struck at Thasos in Thrace dated ca. 300 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 20930. Obverse: Head of (youthful) Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Reverse: bow and club.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Chalkous
- Recorded mean weight
- 1.07 g (mean of 13 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Thasos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
Design
- Obverse type
- Head of (youthful) Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
- Reverse type
- bow and club.
- Reverse legend
- ΘΑΣΙΟΝ
Identification
- Period
- Hellenistic Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20930
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 20930
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. 310, nr. 276
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 188f., nr. 45, pl. 3
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 84, nr. 372
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution