CNG 112, Lot: 119. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35.5mm, 17.00 g, 12h). Head of young Dionysos right, diademed and wearing ivy wreath /
˙rÅ˚GEoU% %Wtro% OÅ%5o@ , Herakles, nude, standing facing, head left, right hand placed on grounded club to left, lion skin draped over left arm; M to inner left. Prokopov,
Silberprägung, Group VI, – (V F2/R 75 [unlisted die combination]); Le Rider,
Thasiennes 51; HGC 6, 358. EF, toned. Struck from fine style, high relief dies.
From the Antiquarium Group. Ex Gasvoda Collection; Nomos 11 (9 October 2015), lot 47 (incorrect obverse die noted).
