Sale: Triton V, Lot: 320. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Black Sea Area. Pantikapaion . Circa 2nd-1st Century BC. Æ 31mm (19.46 gm). Young head right wearing a laureate, Phrygian helmet, helmet decorated with stars / PAN-TIK[A]/PAI-TW[N] in two lines across fields, Dionysos standing left, holding grape cluster in right hand, thyrsos in left, panther at his feet left. SNG BMC Black Sea 936; SNG Stancomb -; SNG Copenhagen -; Anohin 201; Laffaille -. VF, orangish-brown patina. Overstruck on an earlier Pantikapaion Æ, Poseidon/Prow (SNG Stancomb 586, see the previous lot), with the undertype clearly visible on both sides. ($150)