cn type 20806

Atelier monetar

Thasos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Datare

168/167-148 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Avers

Descriere

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

Legendă

ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΑΣΙΩΝ

Descriere

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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Monogramă

(position: at the bottom left)

Metrology

Nominal

tetradrachm 🔍

Material

silver 🔍

Diametru mediu

Diametru maxim: 37.7 mm / Diametru minim: 30 mm

Greutate medie

16.62 g (46x)

Axes

1 (2x) 11 (3x) 12 (9x)

Comentariu public

The different notations of the M (Prokopov monogram 2-5, p. 311) are summarized in this type. The assignment of the coins with M to "original" Thasian coins (type ID 20806) and "Thasian type" (type ID 21027) according to Prokopov is not always certain.

Referinţă

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) ❐

Literatură

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 ❐

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.120 🔍

Mod de citare:

cn type 20806, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/ro/types/20806 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]