THRACIAN ISLANDS. Thasos. Ca. 2nd-1st centuries BC. AR tetradrachm (30mm, 16.63 gm, 1h). NGC MS S 5/5 - 5/5. Ca. 148-90/80 BC. Head of Dionysus right, wreathed 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; HTPΔ monogram in left inner field. HGC 6, 359. SNG Copenhagen 1046-1048. Boldly struck from highly artistic and alto-relievo dies.

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