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Above: Slightly barbarized Thasos-type tetradrachm (16.8g), Thrace, c. 140-72 BC, Sear 215, Göbl Class I, cf. SNG Fitz. 1827. Below: Highly abstracted "barbarous imitation" of Thasos tetradrachm, or Thracian tetradrachm (16.8g), Thrace, c. 72-31 BC, Sear 216, Göbl Class V, cf. Lukanc 1830, 1831. |
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Barbarous imitations of Thasos tetradrachms, which I'm calling
Thracian tetradrachms, flaunt some of the most abstracted styles of any coins. What follows are illustrations of
these coins, which were minted primarily by Thracians living to the northeast of Greece in the first century BC. |
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