Extremely Rare Pedigreed Abdera Oktadrachm

CNG 105, Lot: 44. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 500-475 BC. AR Oktadrachm (31mm, 29.80 g). Griffin seated left, raising left foreleg; ABΔH to lower left / Quadripartite incuse square. May, Abdera, Period II (unlisted type); C-N pl. 6, 8 = R. Ashton, et al., “Some Greek Coins in the British Museum,” NC 158 (1998), pl. 15, 2 (same obv. die); Gorny & Mosch 147, lot 1251; Giessener Münzhandlung 48, lot 128 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, minor die break on obverse. Extremely rare, one of only four known for this issue.

Ex RAJ Collection (Triton XVII, 7 January 2014), lot 89 (realized $8500), purchased in 2003 from F. Shore. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 88 (17 May 1999), lot 115.