LOWER DANUBE. Imitating Thasos. 2nd-1st centuries BC. AR tetradrachm (29mm, 16.78 gm, 12h). NGC XF 5/5 - 4/5. After 146 BC. Head of Dionysus right, crowned with ivy, wearing mitra (cloth headband) / ΗPAΚΛΕΟYΣ / ΣΩTΗΡΟΣ / ΘAΣIΩN, Heracles, nude, standing facing, head left, left arm draped with lion skin, resting right hand on grounded club; MH monogram in left inner field. Cf. CCCBM 231. OTA class III.

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