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Tetradrachm Thasos Type
| Issuer | Uncertain Eastern European Celts |
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| Year | 200 BC - 1 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse description | Celticised bearded head of Dionysos facing right, rendered in a bold, schematised barbarian style derived from the Thasian prototype. The hair is depicted as thick, flowing locks rendered with deeply cut parallel striations, and the head is crowned with an ivy wreath, the leaves and berry cluster schematically indicated by pellets and angular forms. The facial features — almond-shaped eye, prominent nose, and full beard — are rendered with the characteristic abstraction of Celtic die-engraving. The field is plain, and no legend is present. |
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| Reverse description | Stylised standing figure of Herakles facing left, derived from the Thasian tetradrachm type but rendered in pronounced Celtic abstraction, the body reduced to geometric forms. The club, held in the right hand, is degenerated into a cluster of pellets, and the Nemean lion's skin draped over the left arm is similarly schematised. The reverse legend, executed in debased pseudo-Greek characters imitating the Thasian ΘΑΣΙΩΝ inscription, reads IΩVΛEO to the right of the figure, ΩZHDOΛ to the left, and Λ•ΣIΩM below; an additional M appears in the inner left field. |
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| Reverse lettering | IΩVΛEO ΩZHDOΛ Λ•ΣIΩM |
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