Thasos, Chalkous (CN type 20970)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 250-200 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceChalkous in bronze struck at Thasos in Thrace dated ca. 250-200 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 20970. Obverse: Head of bearded Herakles, left, wearing lion skin. Reverse: Bow and arrow, club.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Chalkous
- Recorded mean weight
- 1.44 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Thasos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
Design
- Obverse type
- Head of bearded Herakles, left, wearing lion skin.
- Reverse type
- Bow and arrow, club.
- Reverse legend
- ΘΑΣΙΟΝ
Identification
- Period
- Hellenistic Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20970
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 20970
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, pic. 276
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 84, nr. 373
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution