Thasos, Caracalla, semis (CN type 20915)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
198-217 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thracesemis in bronze struck at Thasos in Thrace under Caracalla dated 198-217 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 20915. Obverse: Laureate bust of Caracalla, left, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Heracles standing left, resting on club, holding lion skin in left arm.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- semis
- Recorded mean weight
- 3.06 g (mean of 3 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Thasos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Caracalla
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Caracalla, left, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Heracles standing left, resting on club, holding lion skin in left arm.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΘΑϹΙΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20915
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 20915
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. 330, nr. 3001
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution