Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 231. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $505. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 411-340 BC. AR Drachm (3.62 g, 12h). Bearded head of Dionysos left, wearing wreath of ivy with berries / Herakles, wearing lion skin, kneeling right, drawing bow; kantharos and club to right; all within linear square in shallow square incuse. Le Rider, Thasiennes 15 var. (no kantharos); SNG Copenhagen 1025. VF, toned, even light porosity.

From the Christopher Morcom Collection.