Triton XV, Lot: 1205. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PERGAMON. Eumenes I. 263-241 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 17.04 g, 1h). Struck circa 255/50-241 BC. Laureate head of Philetairos right / ΦIΛETAIPOY, Athena enthroned left, left elbow resting on shield to right, crowning dynastic name with wreath held in her extended right hand; spear diagonally in background, ivy leaf to outer left, monogram to inner left, bow to right. Westermark Group IVA, dies V.XLVIII:B/R– (unlisted rev. die); SNG France 1612 (same obv. die); SNG von Aulock 1356–7; SNG Copenhagen 335. EF, lightly toned, area of light porosity on reverse.