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From the Hunt, Jameson, and Weber Collections

Triton XIV, Lot: 43. Estimate $7500.
Sold for $40000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 450-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.82 g, 1h). Melanippo, magistrate. EΠI MEΛA-NIΠ-ΠO around raised quadripartite incuse square; all within shallow incuse square. May, Abdera 161b (A127/P133) = AMNG II 55.4 = Jameson 1033 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Mionnet I 365.5 (same dies). EF, toned, a few light marks on reverse. Rare.


Ex Leu 83 (6 May 2002), lot 137; Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29 May 1997), lot 284; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part II, Sotheby’s, 21 June 1990), lot 320; R. Jameson Collection, 1033; Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber Collection (J. Hirsch XXI, 16 November 1908), lot 842.