Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 131. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off THRACE, Thasos. Circa 500-463 BC. AR 1/8 Stater – Diobol (1.04 g). Satyr running right / Quadripartite incuse square. Le Rider, Thasiennes 4; SNG Ashmolean 3653-7; SNG Copenhagen 191-4 (Lete in Macedon). Near EF, lightly toned. Exceptional strike.