Triton XVI, Lot: 388. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.92 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Hera–, Aristoph-, and Epistr–, magistrates. Struck 136/5 BC. Head of Athena Parthenos right, wearing single-pendant earring and triple crested Attic helmet decorated with Pegasos and floral pattern / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; A-ӨE above HPA/API-ΣTOΦ/EΠIΣTP (magistrates’ names) in three lines across field; to left, club facing downward, draped in lion skin and set over bow in case; Λ on amphora, ΓΛ below; all within wreath. Thompson 339c-f (same obv. die); Svoronos, Monnaies, pl. 45, 11 = de Luynes 2084 (same obv. die). Near EF, lightly toned.

Ex Triton XIV (4 January 2011), lot 171.