Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 235. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005. Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THRACE, Abdera. Circa 411/0-386/5 BC. AR Tetrobol (2.75 gm, 3h). Nymphagoras, magistrate.
ABDH, griffin seated left, preparing to spring /
NUM-FA-GOR-AS, dolphin downward to left in dotted square; all within shallow incuse square. May,
Abdera, Group CIX, 379a (A271/P312) = AMNG II 118/16 = Jameson 1038 (this coin); BMC Thrace pg. 71, 43; SNG Copenhagen 336. Good VF, toned. ($500)
From the William and Louise Fielder Collection. Ex Hess-Leu (12-13 April 1962), lot 142; R. Jameson Collection, 1038; Consul Weber Collection (Hirsch XXI, 16 November 1908), lot 849.See lot 230 for more information on the Abdera and its coinage.