Triton XVII, Lot: 90. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THRACE, Abdera. Circa 360-350 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 11.40 g, 1h). Kallianaktos, magistrate. Griffin springing left; ABΔHPI above / Apollo, wearing laurel wreath and chlamys draped over his shoulders, standing half-left, holding phiale in his extended right hand and cradling laurel branch in his left arm; to lower left, stag standing left; EΠI KA-Λ-ΛIA-NAKTOΣ around; all within shallow incuse square. May,
Abdera 449 (A302/P356); AMNG II 97 (same dies as illustration); SNG Copenhagen –; Jameson 2003 (same dies); McClean 4033 (same obv. die); Pozzi 1090 (same dies). VF, toned, obverse off center, a few minor scuffs on obverse.
Ex Pegasi BBS 139 (17 August 2010), lot 38.