Eastern Europe. Imitation of Thasos circa 120-0 BC. Tetradrachm AR

30 mm, 15,16 g

Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing elaborate ivy wreath with leaves and berries, and with his hair partially knotted at the back and partially falling down the back of his neck / ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟVΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘAΣΙΩΝ, youthful Herakles, nude but for laurel wreath and lion's skin over his left shoulder, standing facing, his head to left, holding club with his right hand and resting his left at his waist, to inner left, monogram.

nearly very fine

Cf. Lanz Class II, 962; cf. HGC 6, 359 (for prototype).