Triton XIV, Lot: 187. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.76 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Mened(emos), Epigen(es), and Nikog(e)ne(s), 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/NIKOΓ/NE (magistrates’ names) in six lines across field; to left, Asklepios standing left, holding serpent-entwined staff; Ө on amphora, ME below; all within wreath. Thompson 353h (same dies). Near EF, lightly toned, minor die crack on the obverse.