cn coin 6229

Connected to Type

CN Type 21027 🔍

Mint

Thasos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

148-90/80 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Die

Tha_1770_VGB1 🔍

Design

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

Reverse

Die

Tha_1783_R1410 🔍

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  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 31 mm / Min: 30 mm

Owner

Regionalen Istoričeski Muzej - Vratsa, Vratsa, bg  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: Vratsa 46

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: Vr. Gr. 46

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. 203, nr. 1783, pl. 114, pic. 1783 ❐

Prokopov and Mashov, Moneti i monetni sǎkrovišta ot 2-1 v. pr. Hr. ot fonda na istoričeski muzej Vratsa, 1994 nr. 390 ❐

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. 82, nr. 359 ❐

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 213f. ❐

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