Watch List notes:

ISLANDS OFF THRACE, Thasos. Circa 148-90/80 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 32 mm, 17.00 g, 12 h). Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing tainia and wreath of ivy and fruit. Rev. HΡAKΛEOΥΣ - [Σ]ΩTHΡOΣ / ΘAΣIΩN Herakles standing front, head to left, holding club in his right hand and with lion's skin draped over his left arm; in inner left field, monogram. HGC 6, 359. Prokopov 1709. Nicely toned. Struck from a somewhat worn obverse die and with a graffito on the obverse, otherwise, very fine.


From the collection of Dr. Max Blaschegg (1930-2021, with collector's ticket), privately acquired from Graf in January 1943 ('meine erste Griechenmünze').