Thasos, tetradrachm (CN type 20806)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
168/167-148 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thracetetradrachm in silver struck at Thasos in Thrace dated 168/167-148 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 20806. Obverse: Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath with berries. Reverse: Nude Heracles standing facing, head left, resting right hand on club, left hand on hip, holding lion skin in left arm.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver
- Denomination
- tetradrachm
- Recorded diameter
- 30–37.7 mm (from 26 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 16.62 g (mean of 46 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Thasos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
Design
- Obverse type
- Head of (youthful) Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath with berries.
- Reverse type
- Nude Heracles standing facing, head left, resting right hand on club, left hand on hip, holding lion skin in left arm.
- Reverse legend
- ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΑΣΙΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Hellenistic Period
- Recorded findspots
- Gradeshnitsa
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20806
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 20806
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 63-82
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 82, nr. 358
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution