Tassie Coin Impression MyI No 722
Purchased May 6, 2022.
Purchased From: Online shop of Timothy Medhurst. Original listing no longer available online.
Description:
An Early 19th Century Grand Tour Wax Coin Impression Of An Ancient Greek Tetradrachm Of Roman Macedonian Thasos, “Thasian” Type, c.148-80 B.C.
8cm wide overall.
Obverse: Head of Dionysos wearing taenia and wreath of flowering ivy. Reverse: Herakles standing, nude with a Nemean lion’s skin draped on left arm, his hand rested on an upturned club.
The wax Impression laid to resin within its original card slip, numbered in ink “487”.
There is some minor wear to the card as expected with age, a hairline crack through the centre of the wax and resin, also a thin small hairline to the reverse of the coin. An attractive and very decorative piece. Medhurst original images shown below.
From Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection
MyI No. 722 shown below on left; Image from Catalogue shown on right. Tassie coin impressions were primarily taken from the collection of Dr. William Hunter, the originator of the Hunterian Collection.
“Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection, Vol I”, University of Glasgow
by Hunterian Museum (University of Glasgow); MacDonald, George, 1862-1940
Publication date 1899
Topics Coins, Greek
Publisher Glasgow, J. Maclehose and Sons
Text: p391 pdf 469 of 638 Image: Pl XXVI 11
v. 1. Italy, Sicily, Macedon, Trace, and Thessaly.–v. 2. North western Greece, Central Greece, Southern Greece, and Asia Minor.–v. 3. Further Asia, Northern Africa, Western Europe
“Head of young Dionysos r., wearing wreath of ivy; band across forehead.”
“(GREEK WORDS) Herakles, naked, standing l., laur., holding club downwards in r., and lion’s skin over l. arm, the lion’s scalp appearing over l. shoulder”
[PLATE XXVI. 11.]
