Triton XX, Lot: 95. Estimate $3000. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 390-335 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 15.28 g, 7h). Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing wreath of ivy with berries / Herakles, wearing lion skin, kneeling right, drawing bow; ΘAΣION to left, rose to right; all within linear square in incuse square. Pixodarus Group IV, 38 var. (A21/R– [unlisted rev. die]); West –; Le Rider, Thasiennes 23; HGC 6, 342. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare with rose, none in West or CoinArchives, only one listed in Pixodarus.