445, Lot: 54. Estimate $100. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 140-110 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 15.19 g, 11h). 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 IX, 351–2 (obv. die V Ja16); Le Rider,
Thasiennes 51; HGC 6, 358. VF, uneven toning, slightly wavy flan, scratch under tone on obverse.
From the Johnson Family Collection, purchased from “J.H.,” 27 November 1968.