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cn coin 7245

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CN Type 20806 🔍

Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 168/167-148 BC

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
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 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 33 mm / Min: 31 mm
Weight
15.82 g
Axis
12
Owner

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Münzkabinett, Dresden, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: AAB701

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 222, nr. 72 ❐

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

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 7245, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7245 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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