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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;4to2centBC, post: 2292405, member: 76181&quot;]I owned (own..they were stolen) two imitatives. As you can see the style varies widely.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/stolen-islands-of-thrace-tet.3870/full?d=1447712744" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 148-90/80 BC. AR Tetradrachm (36mm, 16.81 g, 12h). Imitative issue. Wreathed head of young Dionysos right / Herakles standing facing, head left, holding club, lion skin draped over left arm; M to inner left. Le Rider, Thasiennes 52; HGC 6, 359. Good VF, a few minor marks. CNG Auction 269 Lot 18</p><p>November 30, 2011</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/stolen-imitative-thasos-tet.3871/full?d=1447712826" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Thasos. Late 2nd-1st centuries BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.08 g, 12h). Wreathed head of young Dionysos right / Herakles standing facing, head left, holding club, lion skin draped over arm. OTA Class III/A; Lanz -; CCCBM I -; KMW -. Good VF, toned. </p><p>A tetradrachm from the same obverse die is recorded in I. Lukanc, Les imitations des monnaires d&#039;Alexandre le Grand et de Thasos (Wetteren, 1996), Pl. 122 no. 1375. The reverse is from a similar but different die. The coin is in the museum at Jambol, Bulgaria (info courtesty of djmacdo)) CNG 87, Lot: 726. May 18, 2011[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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