CELTIC IMITATION OF THASOS – RARE “HERACLES SAVIOR OF THE THRACIANS TYPE” PUBLISHED BY MACDONALD – VF THRACE PUBLISHED COIN (Inv. 21084)

$1,500.00

21084. THRACE. CELTIC IMITATION OF THASOS. Ca. LATE 1st CENTURY BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 16.05 g, 32 mm.
Obv. Wreathed head of young Dionysus right. Rev. ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘPΑKΩΝ, Heracles standing facing, head left, holding club, lion skin draped over left arm; M monogram to inner left.
Published: David MacDonald, “ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΘPΑKΩΝ Tetradrachms Die Links and Dating,” in Prokopov Feschrift, 2012, Group II, O1–R1, no. 1 (reverse of this coin illustrated on p. 338).
François de Callataÿ, “A tetradrachm with the legend ΘΡΑΚΩΝ overstruck on an Athenian Stephanephoros tetradrachm of ΑΠΕΛΛΙΚΩΝ–ΓΟΡΓΙΑΣ (88/7 BC) and its consequences for the Thasian type coinage,” in Prokopov Festschrift, 2012, Issue 2, O3/R9, citing a sole market coin ex CNG 64, 9/24/2003, no. 162 (same dies); HGC 3.2, 1668 var.; Youroukova 147, citing a specimen of this variety from Sofia, inv. 4820.
Ex Prof. David MacDonald Collection.
VF, miscellaneous marks, an extremely rare variety where Heracles is directly associated with the “Thracians” in the coin’s legend, making him “Heracles, Savior of the Thracians.”