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| Reference | Sear 1759 (for the Greek coin) | | Further information | Axis occupation of Greece during World War II | Silver Tetradrachm 31mm (16.20 grams) Struck after 148 B.C.
Hercules and the Hydra (ca. 1475) byAntonio del Pollaiuolo the hero wears his characteristic lionskin and wields a club
The obverse side of the coin shows the Grand Staircase in the town palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy in Vienna, currently the Austrian Ministry of Finance
Juno, with Hercules fighting a Centaur on reverse (Roman, 215–15 BCE)
Club over his shoulder on a Roman denarius (ca. 100 BCE)
Other cultural references
A series of nineteen Italian Hercules movies were made in the late 1950s and early 1960s
During Axis occupation (1941-1944) Thasos, along with the rest of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace , was under Bulgarian control
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