Thasos, drachm (CN type 21588)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
404-340 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thracedrachm in gold struck at Thasos in Thrace dated 404-340 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 21588. Obverse: Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath. Reverse: Heracles kneeling right, wearing lion skin, drawing bow; all within linear square.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- gold
- Denomination
- drachm
- Recorded mean weight
- 2.83 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Thasos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
Design
- Obverse type
- Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
- Reverse type
- Heracles kneeling right, wearing lion skin, drawing bow; all within linear square.
- Reverse legend
- ΘΑΣΙΟΝ
Identification
- Period
- Classical Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/21588
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 21588
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. 78, nr. 329
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution