384, Lot: 53. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 90-75 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32.5mm, 16.78 g, 12h). 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 XIV, 1013–37 var. (V CB4/R – [unlisted rev. die]); Le Rider, Thasiennes 52; HGC 6, 359. Good VF, toned, hairline flan crack.

From the Dr. Lawrence D. Sporty Collection.