Triton XVI, Lot: 249. Estimate $7500. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 450-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.00 g, 11h). Kallidamas, magistrate. Griffin seated left on tunny left, raising right foreleg; KA-Λ-ΛIΔ-AMA-Σ around / ABΔ-HP-ITE-ΩN around raised quadripartite incuse square; all within shallow incuse square. May, Abdera 142 (A118/P117); AMNG II 61; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Newham-Davis 113 (same dies); Nanteuil 703 (same dies); Ward 413 (same dies); Weber 2375 (same dies). Good VF, attractively toned, die break on griffin’s hind quarter. Excellent metal.