Extremely Rare Maroneia Didrachm

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1047. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Maroneia. Circa 449/8-436/5 BC. AR Didrachm (6.92 g, 3h). Poseidippos, magistrate. Forepart of horse left / ΠOΣE-IΔI-ΠΠ-OΣ: around grape arbor in linear square; all within shallow incuse square. Schönert-Geiss 83 (V1/R1); SNG Copenhagen -; Traité IV 1458, pl. CCCXLI, 3 = BMC 17 (same dies); SNG Ashmolean 3613 = ACGC 549 (same dies). VF, light cleaning marks. Extremely rare.