Triton XIV, Lot: 183. Estimate $300. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.90 g, 11h). New Style coinage. Mened(emos), Epigen(es), and Sofa(nes), magistrates. Struck 135/4 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 ME-NEΔ/EΠI/ΓENO/ΣΩΦA (magistrates’ names) in five lines across field; to left, Asklepios standing left, holding serpent-entwined staff; E on amphora, ΔI below; all within wreath. Thompson 351a (same dies). Near EF, lightly toned, a few deposits on the reverse. Well centered.