Watch List notes:

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 168/7-148 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 23mm, 16.34 g 12). Head of a youthful Dionysos to right, wearing elaborate ivy wreath with leaves and berries. Rev. ΘΑΣΙΩΝ ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ Youthful Herakles, nude but for drapery over his shoulder and left arm, standing facing, his head to left, holding a club in his right hand and resting his left at his waist; in field to left, Μ. Dewing 1338. SNG Copenhagen 1039. Of good style. Bright, but has been cleaned and with considerable traces of removed corrosion, otherwise, good very fine.


From a European collection, formed before 2005.