First Known Silver Issue

CNG 91, Lot: 86. Estimate $500. Sold for $3333. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Madytos. Circa 350 BC. AR Triobol (12mm, 2.20 g, 12h). Bull butting right; above, grape bunch on vine that extends down into exergue / Hound seated right; M-A/Δ/Y around. Unpublished, and none in the online database of the ANS or BM collections, nor the ANS photofile. VF, toned, a little porosity. Apparently the first known silver issue from this extremely rare city.