Triton XV, Lot: 1095. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 168/7-148 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 16.98 g, 1h). Head of young Dionysos right, hair in band and wreath of ivy with berries at the tip / Herakles standing left, right hand on club set on ground, lion skin draped over left arm; HPAKΛEOVΣ to right, ΣΩTHPOΣ to left, ΘAΣIΩN in exergue; M to inner left. Prokopov, Silberprägung 83 (V F1/R 70); SNG Copenhagen 1039 (same obv. die); HGC 6, 358; Dewing 1338 (same obv. die); Weber 2534 (same obv. die). Near EF, very light deposits on obverse.