ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 150-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34.5mm, 16.97 g, 12h). Head of young Dionysos right, hair in band and wreath of ivy with berries at the tip / Herakles standing left, right hand on club set on ground, lion skin draped over left arm; monogram to inner left; HPAKΛEOVΣ to right, ΣΩTHPOΣ to left, ΘAΣIΩN in exergue. Prokopov, Silberprägung, Group I, 7 (V A2/R 7); Le Rider, Thasiennes 51; HGC 6, 358; SNG Berry 521; Boston MFA 869; Gulbenkian 891; CNG 45, lot 262 (same dies). Old collection tone with golden iridescence around the devices. Good VF. Early issue, struck from elegant dies.
From the Weise Collection. Ex Gemini III (9 January 2007), lot 117.