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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Thasos |
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| Year | 404 BC - 355 BC |
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| Weight | 15.18 g |
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| Obverse description | Bearded head of Dionysos facing left, rendered in fine archaic-to-classical style with deeply modelled features and flowing curly hair and beard. The deity wears an elaborate ivy wreath with berries crowning his head, rendered with considerable detail. The portrait fills much of the flan, with the characteristic sensuous physiognomy associated with Dionysiac imagery on Thasian coinage. The die work displays high relief typical of the Thasian mint's skilled engravers of this period. |
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| Reverse description | Herakles depicted in three-quarter kneeling pose to the right, wearing the Nemean lion skin over his shoulders, drawing a strung bow with both arms extended in the act of shooting. A bunch of grapes appears to the right of the hero as a symbol of the island's renowned wine production. The ethnic legend ΘΑΣΙΟΝ runs along the left side of the field. The entire composition is set within a linear border forming a square, itself contained within a broad incuse square, a hallmark of early Thasian coinage technique. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΘΑΣΙΟΝ |
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