cn type 20949

Mint

Thasos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

148-90/80 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath with berries.
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Reverse

Legend

ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΑΣΙΩΝ

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

(position: below)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍
Standard: Attic

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

Max: 36 mm / Min: 32 mm

Average Weight

16.32 g (3x)

Citation

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 (monogram 14) ❐

Literature

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 ❐

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.134 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 20949, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20949 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]