Rare Hellenistic Thasos Drachm
401, Lot: 9. Estimate $500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 180 BC. AR Drachm (18.5mm, 4.12 g, 12h). Wreathed head of Dionysos right / Herakles standing facing, head left, holding club, lion skin draped over left arm. Prokopov,
Silberprägung, Class A, 1–2 var. (V1/R– [unlisted rev. die]); HGC 6, 361. VF, a little porous, light marks, cut in field on obverse.