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Didrachm
| Issuer | Thasos |
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| Year | 355 BC - 340 BC |
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| Value | Didrachm (2) |
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| Obverse description | Bearded male head facing left, rendered in fine archaic-to-early-classical style with strong facial modeling. The figure wears a wreath of ivy or laurel, its leaves and berries rendered in high relief across the crown of the head. The beard is depicted with carefully articulated, flowing locks, and the hair falls in wavy strands behind the ear. The portrait, widely identified as Dionysos, fills the field of the irregular flan with monumental presence and no surrounding legend. |
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| Reverse description | A naked, bearded satyr depicted in a dynamic kneeling-run posture (the so-called 'knielauf' convention) facing right within an incuse square border. The satyr kneels on his left knee with his right leg extended behind him, and his outstretched arms grasp a kantharos (drinking cup) held forward in his right hand and a bow or oinochoe in the left. A small animal, likely a fawn or hare, crouches at his feet in the lower right of the incuse field. The Greek ethnic legend ΘΑΣΙΟΝ is inscribed vertically along the left margin of the incuse square. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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