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Triton XIV, Lot: 178. Estimate $300.
Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.98 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Hera(kles), Aristoph-, and Aristok-, 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/APIΣT/OK (magistrates’ names) in five lines across field; to left, club facing downward, draped in lion skin and set over bow in case; M on amphora, AN below; all within wreath. Thompson 340b (same dies). Good VF.