Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 127. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 360-350 BC. AR Stater (11.41 g, 11h). Zenon, magistrate. Struck 355 BC. Griffin alighting left; ABΔH to above / Hermes, wearing petasos and chlamys, standing right, holding short staff in right hand, left hand extended; EΠI ZHNΩNOΣ to left, kantharos to right; all within incuse square. May, Abdera 447 (A301/P354); SNG Copenhagen -; Weber 2378 (same dies); MG 6 (same obv. die). EF, lightly toned with slight golden hues around the devices, minor die wear on obverse. Very rare issue, only three coins listed by May.