cn coin 54066

Forgery

period: modern
counterfeiter: Christodoulos
Is in the counterfeit collection of the Berlin Münzkabinett.

Connected to types 20795 🔍

• side: both
• skos:narrowMatch
  

Mint

Thasos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of bearded Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse

Legend

ΘΑΣΙΟΝ

Design

Heracles kneeling right, wearing lion skin, drawing bow; all within linear square.
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Symbol

cornucopia (position: on the right)

Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

15.6 mm

Reproduction Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: 18306086

Literature

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. 80, nr. 343 (On the original type.)   ❐

Daux, Guide de Thasos, Paris 1968 nr. 24, pl. 2 (On the original type.)   ❐

Svorōnos, Synopsis de mille coins faux du faussaire C. Christodoulos, Athenes 1922 nr. 47-49, pl. B (On the forgery.)   ❐

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cn coin 54066, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_54066 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/26]

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