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Triton XIV, Lot: 208. Estimate $500.
Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.92 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Timarchos, Nikag(oras), and Menandros Phil-, 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/NIKAΓ/MENAN/ΔPOΣ/ΦIΛ (magistrates’ names) in six lines across field; to left, anchor facing downward with star to right; Ө on amphora, ME below; all within wreath. Thompson 366 var. (same obv. die; unlisted month/control letters combination and third magistrate name rendition). Near EF, lightly toned. Very rare.