Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 100. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Byzantion. Circa 240-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (13.72 g, 12h). Athanaion, magistrate. Veiled and wreathed head of Demeter right / Poseidon seated right on rocks, holding trident and aphlaston; monogram to left, [E]PI AQANAIWN[OS] below. Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1002 (V13/R20); cf. SNG BM Black Sea 59-61; cf. SNG Copenhagen 486. VF, lightly toned, porous, small edge split, scuff on obverse. Rare.