ISLANDS OFF THRACE, Thasos. Circa 148-90/80 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 36 mm, 16.49 g, 12 h). Head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath and taenia. Rev. HΡAKΛEOΥΣ - ΣΩTHΡOΣ / ΘAΣIΩN Herakles standing front, head to left, holding club in his right hand and with lion's skin draped over his left arm; in inner left field, monogram. HGC 6, 359. SNG Ashmolean 3701. Scuffs and scratches and with traces of overstriking on the reverse, otherwise, very fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.

This coin was apparently overstruck on a Lysimachos type tetradrachm, as evidenced by the faint traces of [ΛΥΣΙ]ΜΑΧ[ΟΥ] appearing below the ethnic.