A Study in Numismatic Abstraction
Thracian Tetradrachms

	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.
	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. More on Thracian tetradrachms at the links below, starting with Abstraction Progression. Other pages of mine on coins copying Athens, Alexander the Great, Lysimachos, Parion, Thasos, Constantine the Great, and other coins can be found at my site on Ancient Imitative Coinage.

By Reid Goldsborough

Other glomworthy coins:

First Coins

Athenian Owls

Alexander the Great Coins

Medusa Coins

Thracian Tetradrachms

House of Constantine

Draped Bust Coins

Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles