DANUBE REGION. Imitating Thasos. Ca. 2nd-1st centuries BC. AR tetradrachm (33mm, 16.29 gm, 1h). NGC AU 5/5 - 4/5. Head of Dionysus right, crowned with ivy, wearing mitra / ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ / ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ / ΘΑΣΙΩΝ (corrupted, with pellets forming the points of each letter), Heracles standing facing, head left, lion skin in left hand, resting right hand on club covered in pellets; Π in inner left field. Göbl, OTA Class III. Cf. HGC 6, 359 (for prototype). Cf. SNG Copenhagen 1040-5 (for prototype).

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