256, Lot: 4. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 500-475 BC. AR Oktadrachm (28mm, 28.12 g). Griffin seated left, forepaw raised; M before / Quadripartite incuse square. May, Abdera group XIX, 39 var. (A33/P37); Rosen 129 (same obv. die, perhaps same rev.). Fine, toned. Rare.

May does not note the “M” on the obverse, which was not visible on the one specimen he knew of. It is faint on the present coin, and more clearly visible on the Rosen specimen. Accordingly, the issue should belong to his group XVIII.