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cn coin 6221

Connected to Type

CN Type 20944 🔍

Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

148-90/80 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Tha_1679_VGG2 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath with berries.
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Reverse
Die
Tha_1681_R1342 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ - ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ // ΘΑΣΙΩΝ / i.f.l. mon. Ν
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
Max: 32 mm / Min: 31 mm
Weight
16.18 g
Owner

Regionalen Istoričeski Muzej - Vratsa, Vratsa, bg ❐

Owner Inventory No.: Vratsa 42

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Vr. Gr. 42

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. 194, nr. 1681.1, pl. 109, pic. 1681  ❐

Prokopov and Mashov, Moneti i monetni sǎkrovišta ot 2-1 v. pr. Hr. ot fonda na istoričeski muzej Vratsa, 1994 nr. 368  ❐

Literature

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 184 (monogram 20)  ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 82, nr. 359 ❐

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cn coin 6221, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6221 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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