cn type 20948

Edition

cn.thasos.1_ed.133

Mint

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

(position: below)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

31 mm (1x)

Average Weight

15.85 g (1x)

Axes

12 (1x)

Citation

Prokopov, Die Silberprägung der Insel Thasos und die Tetradrachmen des "thasischen Typs" vom 2.-1. Jh. v. Chr., Berlin 2006   (monogram 28)  ❐

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.133 🔍

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cn type 20948, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/cn.thasos.1_ed.133 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/13]

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