Ex Hunt Collection and Pixodarus Hoard
CNG 85, Lot: 221. Estimate $10000. Sold for $21000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 390-335 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 14.75 g, 11h). Bearded head of Dionysos left, wearing wreath of ivy with berries / Herakles, wearing lion skin, kneeling right, drawing bow; ΘAΣIO-N around; to right, fly left; all within linear square in incuse square. Le Rider,
Thasiennes 23 var. (symbol); Pixodarus 1 (A1/P1) = West period I, 5 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen -. Good VF, toned. Unique, the only known tetradrachm for this issue.
From the George & Julia Fekula Collection. Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (19 June 1991), lot 536 (part of); Pixodarus Hoard (CH IX, 421).