Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 288. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 148-90/80 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.70 g, 12h). Imitative series. Wreathed head of young Dionysos right / Herakles standing facing, head left, holding club, lion skin draped over left arm; monogram to inner left. Prokopov, Silberprägung, group XVI, - (V DB1/R1245 [unlisted combination]); Lukanc 124 (same obv. die, diff. monogram); SNG Copenhagen -. Near EF, lightly toned.