Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 181. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of THRACE. Kavaros. Circa 218 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.63 gm). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / BASILEWS KAUAROU, Zeus seated left, holding eagle in right hand, sceptre in left; Artemis Phosphoros holding two torches in left field. Gerassimov, “Rare Coins of Thrace,” in NumChron 1957, pl. I, 3 (same dies); Yourokova 107 (same obverse die): cf. Price 882 (same obverse die). Near EF. Very rare. ($2500) One of the finest of only a handful of known specimens. Kabyle was the capitol of the Gallic chieftain Kavaros, who was killed during a Thracian revolt against the Gallic yoke circa 218 BC. Gerassimov recorded 6 tetradrachms of Kavaros, four of which were held in museum collections, struck from four different reverse dies and one obverse die. This obverse die was also used to strike coins in the name of Alexander (see Price 882). Artemis Phosphoros was the badge of Kabyle.