Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 255. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $3150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Apollonia Pontika. Late 5th-4th centuries BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.95 g, 12h). Liches, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo right / Upright anchor; inverted A and crayfish flanking, ΛIXHΣ to left; all within shallow incuse square. SNG BM Black Sea -; SNG Copenhagen -; Traité IV 1622 var. (ΛIXA); MG 30 var. (same). Good VF, a little weak at high points. Good metal. Very rare.