cn coin 7249
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cn coin 7249

Coinage
Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 168-90/80 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing taenia and ivy wreath with five leaves and two fruits. Hair dress rolled in the back and with two curls falling on his back.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse 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.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 30 mm / Min: 29 mm
Weight
16.01 g
Axis
12
Owner

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Münzkabinett, Dresden, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: AAB697

Public Commentary

Permanent exhibition VI.

Literature

Ziegaus, Kelten Geld: Münzen der Kelten und angrenzender nichtgriechischer Völkerschaften; Sammlung Christian Flesche; Einführung und Katalog, München 2010 p. 753 ff. ❐

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cn coin 7249, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7249 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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