cn coin 10885

Connected to Type

CN Type 20912 🔍

Mint

Thasos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 148-80 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

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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Monogram

(position: on the left)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍
Standard: Attic

Material

silver 🔍

Weight

15.53 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: Y 4864

Provenience: Rothschild; 2566; 1

Literature

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 144-158 (Imitation.) ❐

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cn coin 10885, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10885 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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