Triton XV, Lot: 1089. Estimate $10000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THRACE, Apollonia Pontika. Late 5th-4th centuries BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.00 g, 12h). Leoprepes, magistrate. Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath / Upright anchor; A and crayfish flanking; ΛEΩΠPEΠHΣ to left; all within shallow incuse square. Cf. Topalov,
Apollonia 50 (for type), but magistrate unlisted; SNG BM Black Sea 165 var. (magistrate); SNG Copenhagen -; Traité IV 1622 var. (unlisted magistrate). EF, minor flan roughness on the reverse. Extremely rare, and an apparently unpublished magistrate.