Triton XIX, Lot: 75. Estimate $7500. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Apollonia Pontika. Mid 4th century BC. AR Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 17.13 g, 12h). Kolotes, magistrate. Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath / Upright anchor; A and crayfish flanking, KΩΛΩTHΣ to left; all within shallow incuse square. Topalov, Apollonia 50 and pp. 374–5, 13.2 = SNG Berry 393 var. (magistrate; same obv. die); SNG BM Black Sea 165 var. (magistrate); Gorny & Mosch 89, lot 84 = Lanz 74, lot 115 = Sternberg XXVII, lot 124 (same dies); Numismatica Ars Classica 29, lot 165 (same dies); Numismatica Ars Classica 52, lot 115 = Gorny & Mosch 169, lot 46 (same dies). Choice EF, lustrous, a hint of die rust and a couple light marks on obverse. Extremely rare with this magistrate, the fourth known.

CNG thanks Evgeni Paunov for the die information on this issue from his forthcoming book Masterpieces of Classical Art: The Tetradrachms of Apollonia Pontika.