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Triton XVI, Lot: 250. Estimate $7500.
Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 395-360 BC. AR Stater (21mm, 12.82 g, 4h). Promethides, magistrate. Griffin springing left off base; [A]ΔHPITE-[ΩN] below / ΠPO-MH-ΘIΔ-HΣ within linear square border around dolphin diagonally downward to right; all within incuse square. May, Abdera 343 (A247/P289); SNG Copenhagen –; Jameson 1036 (same dies). EF, lightly toned, a couple minor die breaks in field on obverse. Very rare, May records only one example from this group (CIII), the Jameson piece, now in the BM.


Ex Hess-Divo 308 (24 October 2007), lot 23; Classical Numismatic Group 73 (13 September 2006), lot 104.