Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 232. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 500-480 BC. AR Oktadrachm (29.99 gm). M-, magistrate. Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised; M to left / Rough quadripartite incuse square. May, Abdera, Group XVII, 36 var. (A31/P-; unrecorded reverse die); AMNG II 7 (same obverse die); Asyut 131; BMC Thrace -; SNG Copenhagen -; Rosen 129; Jameson 1026 (same obverse die). Good VF. Rare. ($500)

See lot 230 for more information on the Abdera and its coinage.