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cn type 21153

Edition
cn.thasos.1_ed.117
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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 ΘΕΟΔΩ
Design
Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: below)
Symbol
amphora (position: Central)
Metrology
Material
Average Weight
3.42 g (4x)
Public Commentary

Although it remains unclear what combination of letters and monograms is on the reverse below, the coins collected in this type appear to have the same.

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., there monogram) 

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

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.117  🔍

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cn type 21153, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/cn.thasos.1_ed.117 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/15]

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