Thasos is an island and a town located in the North Aegean Sea.
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.
Around 650 BC, or a little earlier, Greeks from Paros founded a colony on Thasos. Thasian power, and sources of its wealth, extended to the mainland, where the Thasians owned gold mines even more valuable than those of the island; their combined annual revenues amounted to between 200 and 300 talents.
In the conflict between Philip V of Macedonia and the Romans, Thasos submitted to Philip, but received its freedom at the hands of the Romans after the Battle of Cynoscephalae (197 BC), and it was still a "free" state in the time of Pliny.
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.
Around 650 BC, or a little earlier, Greeks from Paros founded a colony on Thasos. Thasian power, and sources of its wealth, extended to the mainland, where the Thasians owned gold mines even more valuable than those of the island; their combined annual revenues amounted to between 200 and 300 talents.
In the conflict between Philip V of Macedonia and the Romans, Thasos submitted to Philip, but received its freedom at the hands of the Romans after the Battle of Cynoscephalae (197 BC), and it was still a "free" state in the time of Pliny.
Modern location: Thasos, Greece
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Thasos
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An
AR
Trihemiobol
struck c. 411-350 BC
in
Thasos
Obverse: Satyr holding kantharos, kneeling left; grasshopper left
Reverse: amphora; ΘAΣ_IΩN
Diameter:
10 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.73 g
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.73 g
No notes for this coin
Vgl. Lanz: Auktion 82 (24.11.1997) Nr. 110; Auction 114 (26.05.2003) Nr. 80
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Thasos
An
AR
Tritartemorion
struck 411-404 BC
in
Thasos
Obverse: head of Satyr left
Reverse: two dolphins - upper to the left, lower to the right; ΘAΣI
Diameter:
8 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.5 g
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.5 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Cop 1033-1034; Le Rider 12; HGC 340; Beoetia p. 52. Traité III, 347. BCD Boiotia 280
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Thasos
Obverse: dolphin left; ••
Reverse: quadripartite incuse square
Diameter:
5.5 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.2 g
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 0.2 g
No notes for this coin
Le Rider 10; SNG Cop -; BMC 23 var (no pellets)
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