Triton XVI, Lot: 390. Estimate $750. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.87 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Mened–, Epigen–, and Lysan–, magistrates. Struck 135/4 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 ME-NEΔ/EΠI-/ΓENO/ΛYΣAN (magistrates’ names) in four lines across field; to left, Asklepios standing left, holding serpent-entwined staff in right hand; K on amphora, ME below; all within wreath. Thompson 353l (same obv. die). Near EF, light double strike on reverse.

Thompson 353l refers to the Delos Hoard Γ, no. 179, and lists the letter on the amphora as being unknown. However, in his listing of the coins in the hoard, Svoronos (JIAN 9 [1906], p. 265) lists the letter as “[I]”, meaning that he could see a vertical line, but the piece was too worn to be certain that the whole letter was visible. As the present piece is from the same obverse die, and has the same control letters below the amphora, it is likely that the letter K here was the actual letter on the piece in the Delos hoard. Unfortunately, as there is no photo of the Delos coin is not possible to confirm whether the two coins are from the same reverse die.