Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 203. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Under Roman Rule. First Meris. Circa 167-148 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.50 gm, 9h). Amphipolis mint. Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder, in the center of a Macedonian shield decorated with seven eight-pointed stars within double crescents, each separated by three pellets / MAKEDONWN PRWTHS, club; AP monogram above; all within oak wreath, thunderbolt to left. AMNG III 40; SNG Ashmolean 3292; SNG Copenhagen 1310. EF, attractive light toning. Struck from dies of exceptional artistic merit. ($500)