cn coin 65638

Imitation

Date

c. 80 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath and taenia.
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Reverse

Legend

ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ // ΘΡΑΚΩΝ

Design

Nude Heracles standing left, resting on club, holding lion skin in left arm.
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Monogram

(position: on the left)

Overstrike

uncertain undertype

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

33 mm

Weight

16.10 g

Owner

Landesmuseum Württemberg. Münzkabinett Stuttgart, Stuttgart, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: MK 2004-136

Literature

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 143, nr. 974, 977-978, pl. 69-70  ❐

Callataÿ, A tetradrachm with the legend ΘΡΑΚΩΝ overstruck on an Athenian stephanephoros tetradrachm of ΑΠΕΛΛΙΚΩΝ−ΓΟΡΓΙΑΣ (88/7 BC) and its consequences for the Thasian type coinage, Veliko Tărnovo 2012 p. 312-314, pic. 6-13 (c. 80 BC?)   ❐

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cn coin 65638, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_65638 [Last downloaded: 2025/11/19]

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