Islands off Thrace. Thasos circa 140-110 BC.
Tetradrachm AR
30mm., 15,06g.
Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing elaborate ivy wreath with leaves and berries, and with his hair partially knotted at the back and partially falling down the back of his neck / ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟVΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΑΣΙΩΝ, youthful Herakles, nude but for laurel wreath and lion’s skin over his left shoulder, standing facing, his head to left, holding club with his right hand and resting his left at his waist, to inner left, monogram.
very fine
HGC 6, 359; SNG Copenhagen 1039.
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Starting price | 75 EUR |