ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 90-75 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.88 g, 11h). Head of young Dionysos right, hair in band and wreath of ivy with berries at the tip / Herakles, nude. standing left, right hand on club set on ground, lion skin draped over left arm; HPAKΛEOVΣ to right, ΣΩTHPOΣ to left, ΘAΣIΩN in exergue; MH monogram to inner left. Prokopov,
Silberprägung, Group XII, 722 (V AC6/R 576) = Lukanc 967; Le Rider,
Thasiennes 52; HGC 6, 359. EF, attractively toned. Well centered and struck.
From the JP Collection, purchased from Platt, December 1986.