Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 213. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Ainos. Circa 359-356 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.73 gm). Three-quarter facing head of Hermes, turned slightly left, wearing petasos with studded rim / AINON, goat standing right; eagle before. May, Ainos 434 var. (A263/P-; unlisted reverse die); Von Fritze, Ainos pl. ii, 2 (same obverse die). Toned EF, well centered and struck, broad flan. (See color enlargement on plate 7.) ($10,000)

This tetradrachm of Ainos represents a rare late issue from the city, and is struck with a round rather than square reverse die.