Islands off Thrace. Thasos 148-80 BC. Apparently an early imitation
Tetradrachm AR
32 mm., 16,87 g.
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 inner left, monogram of MH.
very fine
Dewing 1343; OTA pl. 46 passim; SNG Copenhagen 1043 ff.