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Triton XX, Lot: 164. Estimate $750.
Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.80 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Mened–, Epigeno–, and Epigo–, magistrates. Struck 135/4 BC. Head of Athena Parthenos right, wearing single-pendant earring and triple crested Attic helmet decorated with Pegasos and floral pattern / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; A-ӨE above ME-NEΔ/EΠI-/ΓENO/EΠIΓO (magistrates’ names) in four lines across field; to left, Asklepios standing left, holding serpent-entwined staff in right hand; Z on amphora, ME below; all within wreath. Thompson 352a–b (same obv. die); HGC 4, 1635. EF, thin die break on obverse.


Ex Triton XI (8 January 2008), lot 168.