cn coin 48255

Connected to Type

CN Type 12884 🔍

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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  🔍 ❐

Weight

16.75 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 225, 14./15. 10. 2014, Nr. 1290.

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 48255, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_48255 [Last downloaded: 2023/05/30]

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