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cn coin 6229

Connected to Type

CN Type 21027 🔍

Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

148-90/80 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Tha_1770_VGB1 🔍
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath with berries.
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Reverse
Die
Tha_1783_R1410 🔍
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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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom left)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 31 mm / Min: 30 mm
Owner

Regionalen Istoričeski Muzej - Vratsa, Vratsa, bg ❐

Owner Inventory No.: Vratsa 46

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Vr. Gr. 46

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. 203, nr. 1783, pl. 114, pic. 1783  ❐

Prokopov and Mashov, Moneti i monetni sǎkrovišta ot 2-1 v. pr. Hr. ot fonda na istoričeski muzej Vratsa, 1994 nr. 390  ❐

Literature

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. 359 ❐

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 213f. ("thasian type")  ❐

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cn coin 6229, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6229 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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