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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 6651890, member: 86498"]Thasos Ar Tetradrachm168/167-148 BC Obv Head of Dionysos right wearing wreath of Ivy leaves Rv. Herakles standing facing head left holding club. Prokopov Group 1 A3/R14 16.93 grms 33mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1268775[/ATTACH]Ilya Prokopov does a die study of these coins but I do not know if she divides this coinage into the two basic groups of "civic" and "Roman" As Thasos was in antiquity a major source for silver it is possible that this civic coinage continued as its completion from Macedonia more or less ended. Prokopov does record some coins in his group XII issues with the monograms of Aesillas? No 580 He also records an issue of one Braetius Sura in her Group XVI coinage no 1199 Both these issues appear to have been minted early in the first century BC. It is possible that these issues plus any of the "anonymous" issues related to these coins were struck elsewhere other than Thasos but that really is an open question. It is clear that this coinage penetrated the trans Danubian regions as the coinage was extensively copied. The Roman generally do not like messing around with a good thing so they probably left the minting of these coins to the Thasians. Made an error of gender for Mr Prokopov Ooops The dreaded secondary source Repaired it[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 6651890, member: 86498"]Thasos Ar Tetradrachm168/167-148 BC Obv Head of Dionysos right wearing wreath of Ivy leaves Rv. Herakles standing facing head left holding club. Prokopov Group 1 A3/R14 16.93 grms 33mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1268775[/ATTACH]Ilya Prokopov does a die study of these coins but I do not know if she divides this coinage into the two basic groups of "civic" and "Roman" As Thasos was in antiquity a major source for silver it is possible that this civic coinage continued as its completion from Macedonia more or less ended. Prokopov does record some coins in his group XII issues with the monograms of Aesillas? No 580 He also records an issue of one Braetius Sura in her Group XVI coinage no 1199 Both these issues appear to have been minted early in the first century BC. It is possible that these issues plus any of the "anonymous" issues related to these coins were struck elsewhere other than Thasos but that really is an open question. It is clear that this coinage penetrated the trans Danubian regions as the coinage was extensively copied. The Roman generally do not like messing around with a good thing so they probably left the minting of these coins to the Thasians. Made an error of gender for Mr Prokopov Ooops The dreaded secondary source Repaired it[/QUOTE]
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