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cn type 20972

Edition
cn.thasos.1_ed.115
Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 180-85 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Legend
ΘΑΣΙΩΝ
Design
bow and club.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: below)
Symbol
amphora (position: Central)
Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 18 mm / Min: 15 mm
Average Weight
3.56 g (4x)
Axes
12 (1x)
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. 84, nr. 368 (Denomination B, c. 180-85 BC.)  ❐

Grandjean et al., Guide de Thasos, [Athènes]; Paris; diff. de Boccard 2000 p. 311f., nr. 281 ❐

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.115  🔍

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cn type 20972, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/cn.thasos.1_ed.115 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/13]

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