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Triton XIV, Lot: 184. Estimate $500.
Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.87 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Mened(emos), Epigen(es), and Epigo-, 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/EΠIΓO (magistrates’ names) in five lines across field; to left, Asklepios standing left, holding serpent-entwined staff; Ξ on amphora, HP below; all within wreath. Thompson 351d = SNG Fitzwilliam 3215 = Svoronos, Monnaies pl. 49, 7 (same dies). Near EF, lightly toned.