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Tetradrachm of Thasos with head of Dionysos
Greek
Classical Period
about 370–350 B.C.
Mint: Thrace (Islands off), Thasos
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 25 mm. Weight: 15.08 gm. Die Axis: 8
Credit Line
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession Number58.309
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Greek Coins, 1950-1963 (MFA), no. 075.
DescriptionObverse: Head of Dionysos to left, bearded, wearing wreath of ivy leaves and berries.
Reverse: Herakles, bearded, wearing lion's skin, kneeling to right on right knee, drawing his bow; in the field at the lower right, a swastika.
At the left, upwards an inscription.
The whole in a linear square, contained in a circular incuse.
Reverse: Herakles, bearded, wearing lion's skin, kneeling to right on right knee, drawing his bow; in the field at the lower right, a swastika.
At the left, upwards an inscription.
The whole in a linear square, contained in a circular incuse.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: G. Locker-Lampson Collection (E. S. G. Robinson, Catalogue, no. 138); by date unknown: R. Cyril Lockett Collection (SNG Lockett, 1938, no. 1225); by 1958: with Glendining & Co., Ltd., 7 Blenheim Street, New Bond Street, London, W. 1 (Glendining auction of the Lockett Collection, part 6, February 12-13, 1958, lot 1142); purchased at the Glendining auction on behalf of MFA by A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd., 3 Robert Street, Adelphi, London, W.C. 2; purchased by MFA from A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd., March 13, 1958, for £ 5,354/8/0 (this is the total price of 58.301-58.313)