cn coin 52487
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cn coin 52487

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CN Type 20806 🔍

Mint
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 🔍  
Weight
16.82 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Künker 158 (28.09.2009) 149.

Literature

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 52487, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_52487 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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