DANUBE REGION. Balkan Tribes. Imitating Thasos. ca. 2nd-1st centuries BC. AR tetradrachm (33mm, 16.72 gm, 7h). NGC MS 4/5 - 4/5. Head of Dionysus right, crowned with ivy, wearing mitra (cloth headband) / ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ / ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ / ΘΑΣΙΩΝ (corrupted, with pellets forming the points of each letter), Heracles standing facing, head left, lion skin in left hand, resting right hand on club covered in pellets. Göbl, OTA Class II. cf. HGC 6, 359 (for prototype). cf. SNG Copenhagen 1040-5 (for prototype).

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