Triton XVIII, Lot: 809. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Thasos. Late 2nd-1st century BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 15.64 g, 12h). Mint in the lower Danube region. Stylized head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath; highly degraded form / Stylized Herakles standing right, holding club, lion skin draped over arm; legend degraded to dots. OTA Class V; cf. Lukanc 1802; Flesche –; Lanz –; CCCBM I –; KMW –; Zürich –. Good VF, toned. Very rare.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Tkalec (29 February 2000), lot 13.