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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Thasos |
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| Year | 404 BC - 355 BC |
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| Weight | 14.75 g |
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| Reverse lettering | ΘΑΣΙΟΝ |
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| Mintage | ND (404 BC - 355 BC) |
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Thasos built its silver coinage almost entirely on the back of its Thracian mainland mines and a lucrative wine trade — the island's access to both made it one of the wealthiest poleis in the northern Aegean through the fifth and fourth centuries. This particular emission falls within the period following Athens' catastrophic defeat in Sicily and the subsequent collapse of its empire, which dramatically loosened Athenian control over allied mints and allowed Thasos to reassert independent coinage policy.
The "var." designation against Thasiennes#23 suggests a die pairing not fully catalogued by Picard's corpus — worth cross-referencing against the smaller hoards documented from the Kavala region.