Savoca Coins
Online Auction 30 | Silver 27 Jan 2019
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Islands off Thrace. Thasos circa 148-80 BC. A very early imitation
Tetradrachm AR
33 mm., 16,78 g.
Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing elaborate ivy wreath with leaves and berries, and with his hair partially knotted at the back and partially falling down the back of his neck / ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΑΣΙΩΝ, youthful Herakles, nude but for laurel wreath and lion's skin over his left shoulder, standing facing, his head to left, holding club with his right hand and resting his left at his waist, to inner left, Μ.
very fine
Le Rider 52; cf. SNG Copenhagen 1042.
Tetradrachm AR
33 mm., 16,78 g.
Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing elaborate ivy wreath with leaves and berries, and with his hair partially knotted at the back and partially falling down the back of his neck / ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘΑΣΙΩΝ, youthful Herakles, nude but for laurel wreath and lion's skin over his left shoulder, standing facing, his head to left, holding club with his right hand and resting his left at his waist, to inner left, Μ.
very fine
Le Rider 52; cf. SNG Copenhagen 1042.