Coin: ar tetradrachm
- Museum number:
- 8-5526
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21080005526
- Accession number:
- Acc.895
- Description:
- Coin; AR; Tetradrachm; Greek. 16.7 grams, 30 mm. After 146 BC. Thasos, Greece. Obverse: Head of Dionysos wreathed. Reverse: [Η]ΡΑΚΛ::ΟΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΑΧΙΩΝ, Herakles standing holding club and lion skin; below, monogram.
- Donor:
- University of California Library
- Collection place:
- Thasos, North Aegean, Greece
- Production place:
- Thasos, North Aegean, Greece
- Culture or time period:
- Greek Hellenistic Period (323–30 BC)
- Collector:
- Benjamin Ide Wheeler
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Silver (metal)
- Person depicted:
- Dionysus/Bacchus (Greek and Roman deity) and Heracles (Greek and Roman diety)
- Inscription:
- [Η]ΡΑΚΛ::ΟΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ and ΘΑΧΙΩΝ
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Coins (money) and Tetradrachms
- Function:
- 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
- Production date:
- after 146 BC
- Accession date:
- 1946
- Department:
- Classical Mediterranean
- Dimensions:
- linear 30 millimeters and weight 16.7 grams
- Loans:
- S1975-1976 #22: University of Oregon (March 22, 1976–June 14, 1976)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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