Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 236. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 386/5-375 BC. AR Tetrobol (2.88 gm, 1h). Molpagores, magistrate. Griffin seated left, preparing to spring / MOL-PA-GO-RHS, head of young Dionysos left in linear square, wearing wreath of ivy; all within shallow incuse square. May, Abdera, Group CXIII, 416 (A288/P337); AMNG II 116; BMC Thrace pg. 71, 42; SNG Copenhagen -. EF. ($500)

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