Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 248. Estimate $1500. Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009. Sold For $1750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.82 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Mened-, Epigeno-, and Epigo-, magistrates. Struck 134/3 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing triple-crested Attic helmet decorated with a palmette and griffin on the bowl / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; A-ΘE across upper field; to left, Asklepios standing left, holding serpent-entwined staff in right hand; Z on amphora, HP below, ME-NEΔ, EΠI/ΓENO, and EΠIΓO in fields; all within wreath. Thompson 351d = Svoronos,
Monnaies pl. 49, 7 = SNG Fitzwilliam 3215 (same dies). EF.
Ex Triton VIII (11 January 2005), lot 320.