Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 231. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 530-500 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.83 gm). Griffin seated left / Rough quadripartite incuse square. May, Abdera, Group VII-IX, 17 var. = SNG Ashmolean 3431 (A15/P-; unrecorded reverse die); cf. AMNG II pg. 125, r-s; Asyut -; BMC Thrace -; SNG Copenhagen -; Rosen -. Good VF. The finest of three known. ($2500)

See lot 230 for more information on the Abdera and its coinage.