CNG 90, Lot: 378. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THRACE, Abdera. Circa 475-450 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.70 g). Herak-, magistrate. Griffin seated left, raising right forepaw; cicada to left, HPAK to right / Quadripartite incuse square. May,
Abdera 104 (A90/P85); SNG Copenhagen -; Boston MFA 747 = Warren 436 (same dies); Jameson 1997 (same rev. punch). Near EF, toned, underlying luster, minor porosity. Well centered and struck.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group 82 (16 September 2009), lot 320.