396, Lot: 51. Estimate $150. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 16.31 g, 12h). Head of young Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath / Herakles standing facing, head left, holding club in right hand, lion skin draped over left arm; M to inner left. Prokopov, Silberprägung, Group IV, 36 (V D2/R 32); Le Rider, Thasiennes 51; HGC 6, 358; Dewing 1337 (same dies). Good VF, porous, some smoothing on edge. Attractive early style.