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cn coin 13482

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Identified as a forgery in the Paris collection

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Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date
Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Dionysus, left, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΘΑΣΙΟΝ
Design
Heracles kneeling right, wearing lion skin, drawing bow; all within linear square.
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Symbol
crab (position: on the right)
Metrology
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
14.77 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1998.927

Provenience: Don Serge Boutin

Public Commentary

Identified as a forgery in the Paris collection.

Cite this record:

cn coin 13482, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_13482 [Last downloaded: 2026/07/19]

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