CLASSICAL COINS
ISLANDS OFF THRACE
THASOS
Stater, about 540-520 BC. AR 9.27 g. Nude, ithyphallic Silenos with beard and long hair, kneeling r., carrying gesticulating maenad wearing long chiton, hair falling down neck in two long plaits. Rev. Four-part incuse square. Svoronos, Hell. pl. 10, 8. SNG Oxford 3643. Nice old cabinet tone. Light scratches on rev.
Obv. Extremely fine. Rev. Very fine Provenance:
A. Mallinson Collection
The Prospero Collection of Ancient Greek Coins
Auction Spink & Son, London Dec.12, 1984, 43
Auction The New York Sale XXVII (2012), 242