ISLANDS OFF THRACE, Thasos. Circa 500-463 BC. Stater (Silver, 21 mm, 9.50 g), c. 500-480. Ithyphallic satyr advancing to right, carrying a protesting nymph. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. Asyut 104. Dewing 1311. HGC 6, 331. Le Rider, Thasiennes 2. SNG Copenhagen 1008-9. Perfectly centered on a round flan; struck on sound silver. Extremely fine. Thasos was a major producer of silver from the mines it controlled on the mainland and struck an enormous number of silver coins as a way of exporting it. From the end of the 6th until the end of the 5th century her issues of staters bearing a satyr carrying off a nymph must have been struck in enormous numbers. They were apparently extremely popular to the north.