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cn coin 6168

Connected to Type

CN Type 20806 🔍

Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

168/167-148 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Tha_0504_VKa35 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath with berries.
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Reverse
Die
Tha_0506_R418 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ - ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ // ΘΑΣΙΩΝ / i.f.l. mon. Μ
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 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
31 mm
Weight
16.80 g
Owner

Regionalen Istoričeski Muzej - Vratsa, Vratsa, bg ❐

Owner Inventory No.: Vratsa 4

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Vr. Gr. 4

Findspot

Gradeshnitsa, bg [bg] ❐

Hoard

IGCH 571 ❐

Public Commentary

Verschollen - Missing

Citation

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 105, nr. 506, pl. 38, pic. 506  ❐

Prokopov and Mashov, Moneti i monetni sǎkrovišta ot 2-1 v. pr. Hr. ot fonda na istoričeski muzej Vratsa, 1994 nr. 54  ❐

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 6168, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6168 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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