cn coin 6221

Connected to Type

CN Type 20944 🔍

Mint

Thasos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

148-90/80 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Tha_1679_VGG2 🔍

Design

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

Reverse

Die

Tha_1681_R1342 🔍

Legend

ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ - ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ // ΘΑΣΙΩΝ / i.f.l. mon. Ν

Design

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

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 32 mm / Min: 31 mm

Weight

16.18 g

Owner

Regionalen Istoričeski Muzej - Vratsa, Vratsa, bg  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: Vratsa 42

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: Vr. Gr. 42

Findspot

Gradeshnitsa, bg [bg] ❐

Hoard

IGCH 571  ❐

Public Commentary

Verschollen - Missing

Citation

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 194, nr. 1681.1, pl. 109, pic. 1681 ❐

Prokopov and Mashov, Moneti i monetni sǎkrovišta ot 2-1 v. pr. Hr. ot fonda na istoričeski muzej Vratsa, 1994 nr. 368 ❐

Literature

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 184 ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 82, nr. 359 ❐

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cn coin 6221, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6221 [Last downloaded: 2023/03/28]

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