Impressive Rendering of Dionysos // From the Pixodarus Hoard

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 118. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 411-340 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.94 g, 6h). Bearded head of Dionysos left, wearing wreath of ivy with berries / QASIW[N], Herakles, wearing lion skin, kneeling right, drawing bow; chelys to right; all within linear square in incuse square. Le Rider, Thasiennes 23 (same obv. die); West period III, 28; Pixodarus 15a (this coin); SNG Copenhagen 1022 (same obv. die); Boston MFA 862 (same obv. die). Good VF, darkly toned. Rare.

Ex Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 223; Numismatic Ars Classica 10 (9 April 1997), lot 213; Pixodarus Hoard.