cn coin 51659

Connected to Type

CN Type 20812 🔍

Mint

Thasos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

168/167-148 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath with berries.

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: on the left)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Weight

16.87 g

Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,
Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.
Provenience: Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger eA 386 (26.04.2006) lot 118

Literature

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 60-62, pl. 1-3 ❐

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 82, nr. 358 ❐

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cn coin 51659, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51659 [Last downloaded: 2023/03/28]

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