Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 201. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $565. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 148-90/80 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.71 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. Prokopov, Silberprägung, group XVI, 1203.3 (V DD2/R966 – this coin); Lukanc 196 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen -; Dewing 1344 (same obv. die). EF, lightly toned.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 53 (15 March 2000), lot 9.