206, Lot: 66. Estimate $100. Sold for $111. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Mesambria. Circa 196/88-115/05 BC. Æ 20mm (5.88 g, 12h). Diademed female head right / Athena Promachos standing left. Topalov, Messambria 19; SNG BM Black Sea 280-3; SNG Copenhagen 661. VF.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.

Topalov breaks the “female head / Athena” series into four stages. This coin, with its thoroughly barbarized style, can be assigned to his third stage.