Triton XVIII, Lot: 566. Estimate $500. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PAPHLAGONIA, Sinope. Circa 330-300 BC. AR Drachm (16.5mm, 4.93 g, 5h). Persic or Reduced Aeginetic standard. Agreos, magistrate. Head of nymph left, hair in sakkos, wearing triple-pendant earring and pearl necklace / Sea eagle standing left, wings spread, on dolphin left; AΓ[PEΩΣ] below eagle’s wings, ΣIN[Ω] below dolphin. RG 25; HGC 7, 399; SNG BM Black Sea 1481–3; SNG von Aulock 6847–9 var. (magistrate). EF, iridescent tone, a little die wear on obverse.
From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from C. H. Wolfe, 11 July 1988.