Sale: Triton X, Lot: 127. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, Derrones. Circa 480-465 BC. AR Dodekadrachm (38.80 g). Driver, holding goad in right hand, driving ox cart left; above, crested Corinthian helmet left / Triskeles right; palmette between legs; [all within incuse square]. HPM pl. II, 4 = AMNG III/2, 7 = Traité I 1453 (same dies); SNG ANS -; SNG Copenhagen -; Pozzi 707 = Pozzi (Boutin) 1463. VF, find patina, pit and minor smoothing on reverse. Rare.

From the Richard Winokur Collection. Ex Triton VIII (11 January 2005), lot 222.

The context and meaning of the types of the Derrones' dodekadrachms are still being debated. Little is known of this tribe other than what can be gleaned from their surviving coinage. Hoard find-spots suggest that they inhabited inland Paeonia, and the absence of their coins from the Asyut hoard suggests that the coinage postdates the burial of that hoard. The obverse type depicts a male figure who is most likely the tribal king and hereditary high priest while the helmet suggests a military reference.