Description: Sterling silver reproduction! Islands off of Thrace, Thasos Circa 140 BC, Silver Tetradrachm 16.83g, 34mm Head of Dionysos right, wreathed in ivy. Herakles standing left, leaning on a club and holding a lion skin. "MH" monogram to left. The island was colonised at an early date by Phoenicians, attracted probably by its gold mines; they founded a temple to the god Melqart, whom the Greeks identified as "Tyrian Heracles", and whose cult was merged with Heracles in the course of the island's Hellenization.[6] The temple still existed in the time of Herodotus.[7] This coin is 925 Silver Cast from a real ancient coin. An eponymous Thasos or Thasus, son of Phoenix (or of Agenor, as Pausanias reported) was said to have been the leader of the Phoenicians, and to have given his name to the island.[8]
Price: 80 USD
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
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Denomination: Tetradrachm
Historical Period: Greek (450 BC-100 AD)
Composition: Silver
Year: 140 BC
Era: Ancient
Fineness: 925
Certification: Kiger Coins
