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Triton XVI, Lot: 251. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Ainos. Circa 459/8-458/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 16.16 g, 3h). Head of Hermes right, wearing petasos / Goat standing right; AINI above; to right, owl standing right, head facing; all within incuse square. May, Ainos 40 (A23/P32); AMNG II 265; SNG Copenhagen 391 (same dies); Boston MFA 773 = Warren 461 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, granular surfaces. Very rare with owl symbol, only two examples cited by May.


Ex Berk BBS 143 (18 May 2005), lot 92.