EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Thasos. Late 2nd-1st century BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.62 g, 12h). Mint in the lower Danube region. Stylized head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath; schematic style / Stylized Herakles standing left, head right, holding club, lion skin draped over arm; legend highly degraded. OTA Class IV; Lukanc 1345; CCCBM I S218; Flesche 758; KMW 1533; Lanz 982; Zürich 1363. Toned, die break on reverse. Good VF. From the W. Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Money Museum, Zurich (Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015), lot 807; Freeman & Sear FPL 5 (Spring 1998), no. 45.
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