cn coin 21272

Connected to Type

CN Type 12884 🔍

Mint

Thasos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

148-90/80 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing taenia and ivy wreath with five leaves and two fruits. Hair dress rolled in the back and with two curls falling on his back.

Reverse

Legend

ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ - ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ // ΘΑΣΙΩΝ

Design

Nude Heracles standing facing, head left, resting right hand on club, left hand on hip, holding lion skin in left arm.

Monogram

(position: at the bottom left)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

32 mm

Weight

16.82 g

Axis

12

Owner

Martin von Wagner Museum, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: Ka 1275 = H 6643
Provenience: Ex Coll. Herbert Wellhöfer

Citation

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 nr. 1216.1 ❐

Literature

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 111-209 ❐

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cn coin 21272, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21272 [Last downloaded: 2023/06/03]

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