cn type 20944
cn type 20944-0
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cn type 20944

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Thasos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

148-90/80 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: below)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Attic
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 32 mm / Min: 31 mm
Average Weight
16.18 g (1x)
Citation

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006 p. 184  (monogram 20)  ❐

Literature

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 82, nr. 359 ❐

editions

cn.thasos.1_ed.129  🔍

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cn type 20944, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20944 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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