Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 494. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $1350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Byzantion. Circa 240-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (13.90 gm). Athanaion, magistrate. Veiled and wreathed head of Demeter right / Poseidon seated right on rocks, holding trident and aphlaston; monogram to left; AQANAIWN below. Schönert-Geiss, Byz., 1022.3 (this coin); cf. SNG BM Black Sea 59-61; cf. SNG Copenhagen 486. VF, attractively toned, a few old scratches under toning. ($1000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Pegasi V (4 June 1901), lot 75; Münzen und Medaillen 54 (26 October 1978), lot 155; Leu 7 (9 May 1973), lot 111; Münzen und Medaillen 10 (22-23 June 1951), lot 222.