From the Michael F. Price Collection

CNG 97, Lot: 56. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 500-475 BC. AR Oktadrachm (26mm, 28.37 g). Griffin seated left, raising left foreleg; grape bunch and Δ to left / Quadripartite incuse square. May, Abdera, Period II, Group XVIII, 38 (A32/P36); AMNG II 13; Berlin 1 (same obv. die); Sartiges 159 (same dies). Good VF, toned, a little die wear on obverse. Very rare.

Ex Michael F. Price Collection (Stack’s, 3 December 1996), lot 51.