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cn coin 17546

Connected to Type

CN Type 20806 🔍

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Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

168/167-148 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath with berries.
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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
Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom left)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
33 mm
Weight
16.83 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18216081

Provenience: 1875 Prokesch-Osten - Vorbesitzer Prokesch von Osten

Literature

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 p. 117, nr. 870 ❐

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 108, nr. 548,2 ❐

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 63-82 (M in different notations)  ❐

Hoover and Ashton, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus): Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster 2010 p. 82, nr. 358 ❐

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cn coin 17546, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_17546 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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