Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 89. Estimate $5000. Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010. Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THRACE, Apollonia Pontika. Late 5th-4th centuries BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.94 g, 5h). Kleokrates, magistrate. Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath / Upright anchor; A and crayfish flanking, [K]ΛEOKPATHΣ to left; all within shallow incuse square. SNG BM Black Sea 165 var. (magistrate); SNG Copenhagen -; Traité IV 1622 var. (head right). Near EF, toned, light porosity, a few minor marks, insignificant flan flaw on reverse (possibly from overstrike). Struck from dies of fine style. Extremely rare.
Ex Triton X (9 January 2007), lot 113.