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 Danubian Celts Immitating Greek Island city of Thasos
Silver Tetradrachm (36mm, 16.77 grams) West Noricum, 2nd-1st Centturies B.C.
Reference: Sear 215; Forrer 405.
Head of young Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy and with the band across forehead.
HPAKΛΕΟΥΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΑΣΙΩΝ, Hercules, naked, standing left, holdign club, lion's skin over left arm; monogram in field to left.

Following the defeat of Andriscus and the organization of Macedonia into a Roman province, the output of the great silver mines were sent to the Thracian mints of Maroneia and Thasos for conversion to coin.