cn type 20806
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cn type 20806

Mint
Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

168/167-148 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
Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom left)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
Diameter
Max: 37.7 mm / Min: 30 mm
Average Weight
16.62 g (46x)
Axes
1 (2x) 11 (3x) 12 (9x)
Public Commentary

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.

Citation

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) 

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. 82, nr. 358

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.120  🔍

Cite this record:

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

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