Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 226. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TROAS, Abydos. Circa 480-450 BC. AR Drachm (5.27 gm). ABVD-[H]NON, eagle standing left / Facing gorgoneion with protruding tongue, within incuse square. BMC Troas pg. 1, 1; SNG Copenhagen 3; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Munich 3. Toned, good VF. Very rare; the sole example we have offered. ($1000)

Ex Marian A. Sinton Collection (Triton III, 30 November - 1 December 1999), lot 503; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Sotheby's, 19-20 June 1991), lot 578 (part of).