Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 238. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 386/5-375 BC. AR Tetradrachm (11.35 gm, 11h). Polykrates, magistrate. ABDHRI, griffin lying left / POLUKRATHS (P retrograde), Artemis walking right, holding bow and arrow in her left hand, laurel branch in her right; below, stag standing right, nibbling on branch; all within shallow incuse square. May, Abdera, Group CXX, 458 (A306/P362); AMNG II 135; BMC Thrace pg. 231, 52b; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Lockett 1133 (same dies); Jameson 2006 (same dies). Near EF, a little flat in center of reverse. ($2000)

Ex Ponterio 103 (4 November 1999), lot 415.

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