Watch List notes:

ISLANDS OFF THRACE, Thasos. Circa 525-500 BC. Stater (Silver, 19 mm, 10.07 g). Nude ithyphallic satyr, with long beard and long hair, moving right in 'running-kneeling' position, holding a nymph in his arms, who raises her right hand in protest. Rev. Rough quadripartite incuse square. Dewing 1311. HGC 6, 331. Svoronos p. 95, 1 and pl. X, 2. Very rare. A very early piece of vigorous Archaic style. A few light marks, otherwise, about extremely fine.


From a Bavarian collection, formed in the early 2000s.