TYPE Ancient Greece, Thasos (island off Thrace), after 148 BC, silver tetradrachm (barbarous imitation), 14.11g DESCRIPTION . Obv: Head of young Dionysos, wreathed with ivy Rev: Nude Herakles with lion skin and club, standing to l., monogram, Greek legend IRAKLEOUS SOTIROS THASION ("of Herakles, saviour of the Thasians") REFERENCE: SG 1759 var., cf. Lucanc 60-85 GRADING: VF, toned ORDER INFO: G3198, $225 A very popular Greek type, even though its original is essentially a Roman-produced coin. In fact, its popularity ran high even back then, when it was widely imitated by the Danubian Celts of the Thracian interior, and in an apparent continuum of cruder (or more stylized) artistic renditions it is hard to determine exactly where is the divider lies. The present specimen, while generally of the imitative type (somewhat angular Dionysos features, etc.) is still towards the "original" part of the spectrum, with mostly proportional figures and fully proper legends.