Savoca Coins
Special Auction 79 21 Jun 2020
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Islands off Thrace. Thasos after 148 BC.
Tetradrachm AR
30 mm., 16,77 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, monogram of ΜH.
very fine
Le Rider, Thasiennes 52; HGC 6, 359.
Tetradrachm AR
30 mm., 16,77 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, monogram of ΜH.
very fine
Le Rider, Thasiennes 52; HGC 6, 359.