CNG 100, Lot: 1304. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Maroneia. Circa 430-400 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.37 g, 6h). Metrodotos, magistrate. Horse prancing left; µ-Å-rW@ and kantharos above / Grape arbor in linear square; EΠI M-HTP-OΔ-OTO around; all within shallow incuse square. Schönert-Geiss 101 (V11/R15); SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Lockett 1191 = Bement 817 (same obv. die); BMC 24 = Traité IV 1448 (same obv. die); Kraay & Hirmer 430 (same dies). VF, toned, light scratches under tone on reverse. Rare early issue.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, February 1988. Ex Vinchon (3 December 1984), lot 10.