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cn type 20807

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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 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 35 mm / Min: 30 mm
Average Weight
16.42 g (33x)
Axes
10 (2x) 11 (5x) 12 (3x)
Public Commentary

The assignment of the coins with M to "original" Thasian coins (type ID 20807) and "Thasian type" (type ID 12884) 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. 88-92, pl. 24  ("Original coins")  ❐

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.121  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 20807, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20807 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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