Details
LOT 2605
Greek Coins - Thasos - Herakles AR Tetradrachm After 148 B.C.
Obv: head of young Dionysus right, wreathed with ivy. Rev: HRAKLEOYS SWTHROS QASIQN legend to left, right and beneath Herakles standing facing, naked, head left, holding club and lionskin, monogram to left and right. Fine.(10.58 grams, 31 mm.). [No Reserve]
Provenance
From an old UK collection.
From the collection of a London antiquarian.
Literature
BMC 72, Sear 1759.
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