Triton XIV, Lot: 202. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.78 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Timarchos, Nikago(ras), and Menan(dros), magistrates. Struck 134/3 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 TIM-APXOY/NIKAΓO/MENAN (magistrates’ names) in four lines across field; to left, anchor facing downward with star to right; E on amphora, ΣΦ below; all within wreath. Thompson 364b var. (same obv. die; NIKAΓ not NIKAΓO). Near EF, lightly toned. Well centered and struck.