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Drachm
| Issuer | Thasos |
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| Year | 404 BC - 355 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Bearded head of Dionysos facing left, wearing an ivy wreath, rendered in fine archaic-to-early classical style with flowing hair curling behind the neck. The deity's mature, somewhat idealized features are depicted with careful relief, characteristic of Thasian mint workmanship of the early fourth century BC. The field is plain, with no legend or inscription on the obverse. |
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| Reverse description | Herakles, clad in a Nemean lion skin, depicted kneeling to the right on one knee with his body in three-quarter view, drawing a strung bow at full tension. The inscription ΘΑΣΙΟΝ appears in the left field in Greek characters, while a rose, the civic badge of Thasos, is positioned in the right field. The entire design is contained within a linear square set within a deep incuse square, a hallmark of early Greek coinage technique. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΘΑΣΙΟΝ |
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