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cn coin 53837

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CN Type 12884 🔍

Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

148-90/80 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
Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom left)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 31.4 mm / Min: 29.9 mm
Weight
16.76 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Lanz 120 (18.05.2004) 93

Literature

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 111-209 ("Thasian type")  ❐

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cn coin 53837, in: Corpus Nummorum, http://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53837 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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