CNG 102, Lot: 189. Estimate $500. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 90-75 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 16.65 g, 12h). 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 XIV, 1007 (V CB3/R 806); Le Rider, Thasiennes 52; HGC 6, 359. Good VF, minor gouge in field on reverse. Well centered on a broad flan.

From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection.