bga_864044 - DANUBIAN CELTS - IMITATIONS OF THASOS AND MORONEIA Tétradrachme, imitation de Thasos
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Type : Tétradrachme, imitation de Thasos
Date: c. Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain
Metal : silver
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 16,70 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Jolie monnaie sur un flan ovale et centré. Quelques faiblesses mais une tête agréable au droit. Beau revers avec une légende bien venue à la frappe. Patine grise
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Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Dionysos à droite, portant une couronne de feuilles de vigne et de lierre, les cheveux longs.
Reverse
Reverse description : Hercule nu, la léonté flottant sur l'épaule, debout à de face.
Reverse legend : HRAKLEOUS // SWTHROS // QASIWN.
Historical background
DANUBIAN CELTS - IMITATIONS OF THASOS AND MORONEIA
(2nd - 1st century BC)
After 357 BC, Thasos fell under Macedonian rule. It regained part of its independence with the death of Lysimachus in 281 BC. After the defeat of Cynoscephali in 197 BC, Thasos again became autonomous. From 148 or 146 BC, the Roman Senate authorized Thasos and Maronea to mint wide blank tetradrachms which were minted in very large quantities and imitated in the Balkans until the end of the 1st century BC. -VS.
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