Sale: Nomos 7, Lot: 28. Estimate CHF40000. Closing Date: Tuesday, 14 May 2013. Sold For CHF46000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 380 BC. Drachm (Gold, 3.95 g 12). Bearded head of Dionysos to right, wearing wreath of ivy leaves with berries at his forehead.
Rev. ΘΑΣΙΟΝ Herakles, wearing lion-skin headdress and short, hunting chiton, kneeling right, shooting his bow; to right, Κ; all in linear frame within an incuse square . Prospero 245 (
same dies). West pl. 4, 30 var. (
same obverse die). An attractive example, nicely centered. Usual die break at the reverse edge,
otherwise, extremely fine.
From the Spina Collection, ex Leu 86, 5 May 2003, 316.
This lovely coin is commonly termed a hemidrachm: this is a misnomer. By weight it is a gold drachm or a hemistater.