★ Grape bunch on reverse ★

Islands off Thrace. Thasos circa 411-350 BC.
Drachm AR

14mm., 3,53g.

Head of bearded Dionysos left, wearing ivy-wreath / ΘΑΣ-Ι-ΟΝ, Herakles, kneeling right on right knee, wearing lion's skin about his head and shoulders, and a skirt falling from his waist to his knees, with outstretched arms he bends his bow, in field right, club, grape bunch above knee, all within linear square in incuse square.

very fine

BMC Thrace -; Cf. West 7 (salamander above knee).