CELTIC, DANUBE REGION. IMITATING ISLANDS OFF THRACE. Thasos. After 148 B.C. AR tetradrachm. 17.26 gm. 33 mm. Imitative type. Head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath and taenia / Nude Herakles standing facing, head left, holding club and lion skin; blundered legends, degraded M to left. HGC 6, 359. Göbl, OTA Class III. Very Fine; nicely toned; typical wavy flan; scattered light porosity. Attractive wild Celtic style; unusual circular star design at nape of neck.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group eAuction 54 (4 December 2002), lot 1.