407, Lot: 47. Estimate $150. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.82 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 V, 56–7 var. (V E3/R – [unlisted rev. die]); Le Rider,
Thasiennes 51; HGC 6, 358. VF, toned, a few die breaks, tiny mark on obverse, minor porosity on reverse.
From the B. H. Webb Collection.