cn coin 65638
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cn coin 65638

Coinage
Date

c. 80 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath and taenia.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ // ΘΡΑΚΩΝ
Design
Nude Heracles standing left, resting on club, holding lion skin in left arm.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: on the left)
Overstrike
uncertain undertype
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
33 mm
Weight
16.10 g
Owner

Landesmuseum Württemberg. Münzkabinett Stuttgart, Stuttgart, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: MK 2004-136

Literature

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 143, nr. 974, 977-978, pl. 69-70 ❐

Callataÿ, A tetradrachm with the legend ΘΡΑΚΩΝ overstruck on an Athenian stephanephoros tetradrachm of ΑΠΕΛΛΙΚΩΝ−ΓΟΡΓΙΑΣ (88/7 BC) and its consequences for the Thasian type coinage, Veliko Tărnovo 2012 p. 312-314, pic. 6-13 (c. 80 BC?)  ❐

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cn coin 65638, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_65638 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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