cn type 12884

Mint

Thasos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

148-90/80 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

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: at the bottom left)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍
Standard: Attic

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

Max: 39 mm / Min: 28 mm

Average Weight

16.54 g (170x)

Axes

1 (4x) 10 (2x) 11 (7x) 12 (28x)

Public Commentary

The assignment of the coins with this monogram to "original" Thasian coins (type ID 20807) and "Thasian type" (type ID 12884) according to Prokopov is not always certain. More coins of this type: Gorny&Mosch 216 lot 2206; Gorny&Mosch 219 lot 87.88; Gorny&Mosch 211 lots 145-147; 220 lot 1131.1133; Gorny&Mosch 220 lot 1136.

Citation

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 111-209 ("Thasian type") ❐

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.138 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 12884, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12884 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]