cn coin 9541

Mint

Thasos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

146 BC
Hellenistic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath and three long curls falling on his neck.

Reverse

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.

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

30.6 mm

Weight

16.8 g

Owner

Museum August Kestner, Hannover, Hannover, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 1972.29

Literature

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

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cn coin 9541, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9541 [Last downloaded: 2023/06/03]

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