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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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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Herakles facing left, nude, with club held in the right hand and the Nemean lion's skin draped over the left arm, closely imitating the reverse type of the Thasian tetradrachm. The Greek legend HPAKΛEOVΣ appears to the right of the figure and ΣΩTHPOΣ to the left, with ΘAΣIΩN inscribed in the lower field below the exergue line; a monogram appears to the inner left field. The overall design, while derived from the Thasian civic coinage of the 2nd–1st century BC, displays varying degrees of Celtic stylistic degeneration in the rendering of the figure and epigraphy. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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The Thasian tetradrachm became one of the most widely imitated coin types across the Balkans and Danube regions, copied by Celtic tribes for generations after the original Thasian issues themselves had ceased. These imitations were not crude forgeries — they were functional currency produced by communities that had no diplomatic or economic relationship with Thasos itself, simply borrowing the formal authority of a recognized Greek type. Over successive copying generations, the prototype degraded through each intermediary die, producing increasingly stylized and abstracted versions that bear only a distant relationship to the Thasian originals.
Kostial 950 falls within a broad attribution to uncertain Eastern European Celtic workshops, and pinning a specific tribe or mint site to this type remains unresolved.