Islands off Thrace. Thasos circa 150-140 BC.
Tetradrachm AR
32mm., 16,71g.
Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath, and with his hair partially knotted at the back and partially falling down the back of his neck / ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΑΣΙΩΝ, Herakles, nude but for laurel wreath and lion’s skin over his left shoulder, standing left, holding club with his right hand, to left, Μ.
very fine
Le Rider 51; Prokopov, Group VI, 88.