Triton XIV, Lot: 235. Estimate $500. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 17.00 g, 11h). New Style coinage. Dorothe(os) and Dioph-, magistrates. Struck 132/1 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 ΔΩP/OӨE ΔIOΦ (magistrates’ names) in three lines across field; to right, forepart of lion right; A on amphora, ΔI below; all within wreath. Thompson 384a = Svoronos,
Monnaies pl. 46, 16 (same dies). Near EF, lightly toned, deposit on the reverse.