Sale: Triton X, Lot: 119. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 411-340 BC. AR Drachm (3.02 g, 10h). Bearded head of Dionysos left, wearing wreath of ivy with berries / QASION (A inverted), Herakles, wearing lion skin, kneeling right, drawing bow; kantharos to right; all within linear square in broad circular incuse. Le Rider, Thasiennes -; West period IV, 32; SNG Ashmolean -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 48; McClean 4210; Winterthur 1296. VF, toned. Very rare circular-incuse drachm.