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Very Rare Pedigreed Thasos Drachm

489943. Sold For $88000

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 390-335 BC. AV Drachm (13mm, 3.95 g, 2h). Chian standard. Bearded head of Dionysos left, wearing wreath of ivy with berries at the apex / Herakles, wearing lion skin headdress and hunting chiton, kneeling right, drawing bow; ΘAΣIΩN to left, K to right; all in linear square within incuse square. West 30 var. (letter on rev.; same obv. die); Le Rider, Thasiennes 22; HGC 6, 327; Hunt III 33 (same dies). Superb EF, traces of deposits. Well centered and struck. Very rare.


Ex Tkalec & Rauch (25 April 1989), lot 82.