Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 252. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Maroneia. After 146 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.89 gm). Wreathed head of young Dionysos right / Dionysos standing half-left, holding grapes and narthex stalks, cloak wrapped around left arm; monogram (cut over another monogram) to left. Schönert-Geiss 976 var. (V1/R-, unlisted reverse die). Toned, good VF, rough spot on reverse. Unpublished monogram. Extremely rare first issue without "Dionysos Soter". ($4000)

Schönert-Geiss knew of only 2 examples of this first issue, both with a different monogram. The third known example, from the same dies as the present specimen, appeared in Sternberg XXXIV (22-23 October 1998), lot 24.