Triton XIV, Lot: 172. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.71 g, 11h). New Style coinage. Hera(kles), Aristoph-, and Epistr(atos), 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-ΣTOΦ/EΠIΣTP (magistrates’ names) in four lines across field; to left, club facing downward, draped in lion skin and set over bow in case; Λ on amphora, ΓΛ below; all within wreath. Cf. Thompson 335/339c-e (same obv. die/rev. type). Near EF, lightly toned, some deposits on the reverse.