Islands off Thrace, Thasos AR Stater. Circa 412-404 BC. Bald headed and nude Satyr in kneeling-running stance to right, carrying off a protesting nymph; Φ in right field / Quadripartite incuse square. Traité -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Svoronos, L'hellénisme primitif de la Macédoine, p. 99, 24; Le Rider pl. I, 6; SNG Lockett 1219; SNG Berry 610. 8.72g, 21mm.
Near Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare.
Evidently from the same series as the celebrated 'A' die (see Kraay-Hirmer 437; Gulbenkian 464; Le Rider, Thasiennes, 6; SNG Copenhagen Suppl. 103), the Φ issue shares many of the same stylistic characteristics and was probably the work of the same engraver. It is far rarer; in contrast to the several dozen examples of the 'A' issue, there appear to have been fewer than half a dozen examples of the 'Φ' issue at auction in the past couple of decades.