cn coin 54533

Forgery

Is in the counterfeit collection of the Berlin Münzkabinett.

Forgery is oriented to the following type 20945 🔍

Side: Both sides
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Monogram not clear here, so not assignable to a certain type

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Mint

Thasos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

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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Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍
Standard: Attic

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

32.2 mm

Weight

17.02 g

Axis

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18398513

Provenience: Cassel 1925

Citation

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 196, nr. 1695, pl. 109 (on the original coin) ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 54533, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_54533 [Last downloaded: 2026/10/11]