cn coin 54686

Obverse

Design: Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse

Design: Heracles kneeling right, wearing lion skin, drawing bow; all within linear square.
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Metrology

Owner: American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 1967.152.231

Public Commentary: This coin gives cause for doubt. The obverse die is the same like the coin https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10317490f, which was included in Henri Hoffmann's collection of modern forgeries (no. 50: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10462664v/f16.item). The declared fake obverse and stylistic features require further examination of the original coin. We would like to thank Ilya Prokopo for the consultation and important information in July 2024.

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. 78, nr. 329 ❐

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. 78, nr. 329 ❐

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