ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 90-75 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32.5mm, 17.00 g, 11h). “Imitative” series. Near EF.

Triton XXIX
Lot: 88. Estimated: $ 1 000

Greek, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

Sold For $ 3 750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 90-75 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32.5mm, 17.00 g, 11h). “Imitative” series. Head of young Dionysos right, hair in band and wreath of ivy with berries at the tip / Herakles standing left, right hand on club set on ground, lion skin draped over left arm; M to inner left; HPAKΛEOVΣ to right, ΣΩTHPOΣ to left, Θ[PA]KΩN in exergue. MacDonald, Tetradrachms, Group I, O2/R7, 1 (this coin, illustrated); Prokopov, Silberprägung, Group XIII, 974 var. (V BBa1/R – [unlisted rev. die]); Le Rider, Thasiennes 52; CN Online Type 4201; HGC 6, 359 var. (ethnic). Old iridescent tone, overstruck on a New Style tetradrachm of Athens of the magistrates Amphias and Oinophilos, obv. die 1194. Near EF.

Ex Prof. David Macdonald Collection.


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