Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 116. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $17750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Chalkidian League. 432-348 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.43 gm, 11h). Olynthos mint. Struck circa 383-379 BC. Laureate head of Apollo left with long hair / C-A-L-KID-EWN, kithara; small tripod above. Robinson & Clement Group M, 79 (A51/ P71); cf. AMNG III 7; SNG ANS 486; SNG Lockett 1311 (same dies). EF. Struck from the finest dies of the Chalkidian series, and very rare ­ only two examples cited by Robinson & Clement. ($10,000)

From the Ronald Cohen Collection.