375, Lot: 246. Estimate $300. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 90-75 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 16.72 g, 12h). Wreathed head of young Dionysos right / Herakles standing left, holding club and lion’s skin; monogram to inner left. Prokopov, Silberprägung, Group XIII, – (V BBd1/R – [unlisted rev. die]); Le Rider, Thasiennes 52; HGC 6, 359. VF, lightly toned.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 161 (28 March 2007), lot 17.

The obverse die used for this coin was the one die paired with the extremely rare reverses with ΘPAKIΩN rather than ΘAΣIΩN in the exergue.