391, Lot: 83. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 390-335 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 15.09 g, 7h). Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing wreath of ivy with berries / Herakles, wearing lion skin, kneeling right, drawing bow; inverted labrys to right; all within linear square in incuse square. Pixodarus Group IV, 28 (A15/P26); West 32bis; Le Rider, Thasiennes 23; HGC 6, 342. Good VF, toned, slightly off center, area of deposit on reverse. Extremely rare, only 6 examples noted in Pixodarus, one of which is the sole piece in CoinArchives.