Triton XV, Lot: 824. Estimate $150. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Thessalian League. Second half 2nd century BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.24 g, 10h). Nikolaos and Gorgias, magistrates. Laureate head of Apollo right / ΘEΣΣA/ΛΩN, Athena Itonia striding right, hurling spear held in her right hand, shield on her left arm; NIKO-ΛAOΣ above spear, NI to inner right field, ΓO-PΓI/AΣ across lower central field. SNG Christomanos 454 corr. (reading of magistrate names); see also E. Bourgey, 29 June 1976, lot 28. VF, attractively toned with traces of blue and orange iridescence.
Ex Kölner Münzkabinett 55 (7 April 1992), lot 164, hammer DM 205.