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cn coin 53728

Coinage
Imitation
Date

c. 80 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath and taenia.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΡΑΚΩΝ
Design
Nude Heracles standing left, resting on club, holding lion skin in left arm.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
16.57 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Lanz 117 (24.11.2003) 183.

Literature

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 143, nr. 974, 977-978, pl. 69-70 ❐

Callataÿ, A tetradrachm with the legend ΘΡΑΚΩΝ overstruck on an Athenian stephanephoros tetradrachm of ΑΠΕΛΛΙΚΩΝ−ΓΟΡΓΙΑΣ (88/7 BC) and its consequences for the Thasian type coinage, Veliko Tărnovo 2012 p. 312-314, pic. 6-13 (c. 80 BC?)  ❐

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cn coin 53728, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53728 [Last downloaded: 2026/07/15]

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