200, Lot: 23. Estimate $150. Sold for $199. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 148-90/80 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.70 g, 12h). Imitative series. Wreathed head of young Dionysos right / Herakles standing facing, head left, holding club, lion skin draped over left arm; monogram to inner left. Cf. Prokopov, Silberprägung group XVI (unlisted dies); Le Rider, Thasiennes 52; SNG Copenhagen 1046. VF, toned, slight bend in flan, minor scratches.

From the Norman Frank Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 51 (15 September 1999), lot 253.