Provenanced to 1939 ISLANDS OFF THRACE, Thasos. Circa 411-340 BC. Drachm (Silver, 14 mm, 3.80 g, 3 h), struck c. 404-390. Head of bearded Dionysos to left, wearing an ivy wreath. Rev. ΘΑΣ-Ι-ΟN Very muscular figure of Herakles, wearing his lion skin over his head and shoulders and in hunting dress, kneeling to right and drawing his bow; in the lower right field, barley ear; all within a linear square in a shallow incuse square. HGC 6, 343 (same dies). Le Rider, Thasiennes 15. West, period IC, (but this symbol unrecorded). Of fine Classical style, and extremely rare -seemingly the second example known with this symbol. Good very fine. From a European collection, ex Schweizerischer Bankverein 17, 27 January 1987, 23, and from the collection of Dr. E. Nitsch, Hess 236, 3 April 1939, 421.