EASTERN EUROPE. Imitating Thasos. After 148 B.C. AR tetradrachm. 15.91 gm. 30 mm. Head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath and taenia / Herakles standing left holding club and lion skin; four pellets (degraded M) to left. HGC 6, 359. Prokopov, Silberprägung group XII (uncertain dies). Good Very Fine; sharply struck; rich dark find patina; attractive style. Curved flan. A classic example of an original "find patina."

Ex Classical Numismatic Group eAuction 209 (22 April 2009), lot 36.