THRACIAN ISLANDS. Thasos. Ca. 2nd-1st centuries BC. AR tetradrachm (31mm, 16.74 gm, 1h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 3/5, edge bend, marks. Ca. 148-90/80 BC. Head of Dionysus right, crowned with ivy, wearing mitra (cloth headband) / ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ / ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ / ΘΑΣΙΩΝ, Heracles, nude, standing facing, head left, left arm draped with lion skin, resting right hand on grounded club; MH monogram in left inner field. SNG Copenhagen 1040-1045. The holder notes that this coin is perhaps a Celtic issue.

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