Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 202. Estimate $20000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Uncertain (Maroneia?). Circa 500-480 BC. EL Stater (13.93 gm). Milesian standard. Forepart of ram right, legs in running attitude, terminating behind shoulder in narrow vertical belt decorated with pellets between two vertical lines / Rectangular incuse punch. Unpublished and unique. For similar issues, cf. M.J. Price, “A Field in Western Thrace,” Coin Hoards II, fig 1, 3. VF, well centered. (See color enlargement on plate 3.) ($20,000)

The general high classical treatment and pelleted termination belt of the ram of the above coin are very similar to the bull forepart of Price, fig. 1, 3. The present coin may be attributable to Maroneia on the grounds of a similar ram’s head not only being present on the reverse incuse of early fourth century drachms (cf. Schöniert-Geiss 39-70) but also on locally found silver fractions depicting on the obverse a ram’s head. Within the reverse incuse of these fractions is a kantharos similar to that placed above the mid fourth century tetradrachmae of Maroneia (cf. Schöniert-Geiss 85-105).