Triton XIV, Lot: 165. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.91 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Hera(kles), Aristoph-, and Arche-, magistrates. Struck 136/5 BC. Head of Athena Parthenos right, wearing necklace, pendent earring, and triple-crested Attic helmet decorated with the protomes of four horses above the visor, a Pegasos in flight rightward above the raised earpiece, and a curvilinear ornament on the shell / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; A-ӨE above HPA/API-ΣTOI/APXE (magistrates’ names) in four lines across field; to left, club facing downward, draped in lion skin and set over bow in case; Ξ on amphora, HP below; all within wreath. Thompson 336b (same obv. die). Near EF, lightly toned. An engraver’s error appears to have resulted in the terminal phi resembling an iota instead for the middle magistrate.