373, Lot: 34. Estimate $150. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 90-75 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 16.37 g, 10h). 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 XII, 1044–9 var. (V AH1/R – [unlisted rev. die]); Le Rider,
Thasiennes 52; HGC 6, 359. VF, toned, softly struck, struck with worn obverse die.
From the Byron Schieber Collection.