Thasos, Chalkous (CN type 21151)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 335-310 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceChalkous in bronze struck at Thasos in Thrace dated ca. 335-310 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 21151. Obverse: Head of (youthful) Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Reverse: bow and club.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Chalkous
- Recorded diameter
- 10 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 1.34 g (mean of 1 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/21151
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 21151
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. 307, pic. 273
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 84, nr. 372
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution