Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 437. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $1010. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TROAS, Abydos. Circa 2nd-1st Century BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.51 gm). Diademed bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder / Eagle standing right; helmeted head of Athena to right, MILHQI (magistrate) in exergue; all within wreath. SNG von Aulock -; BMC Troas -; SNG Copenhagen -; Hunterian -; SNG Lockett -; Weber -; McClean -; Waddington -; cf. Prowe Collection (Egger Auction XLVI, 11 May 1914), lot 600 (magistrate MILH, same symbol, same obverse die). This form of the magistrate's name not recorded in the standard works. Toned VF, light porosity, some smoothing on the reverse. ($750)