Triton XVIII, Lot: 524. Estimate $750. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 1660 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Epigene–, Sosandros, and Moschi–, magistrates. Struck 126/5 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-ΘE above EΠI/ΓENH/ ΣΩΣAN/ΔPOΣ to right and MO/ΣXI to left (magistrates’ names); to left, eagle standing right on thunderbolt; B on amphora, HPA below; all within wreath. Thompson 445b (same obv. die); SNG Fitzwilliam 3208 var. (bottom letters; same obv. die); SNG Tübingen 1700 var. (same; same obv. die); BMC 395 var. (same; same obv. die). Near EF, toned.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist. Ex Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack’s, 10 June 1970), lot 268.