Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 237. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 386/5-375 BC. AR Tetradrachm (11.39 gm, 6h). Kallianax, magistrate. ABDHRI, griffin seated left, preparing to spring / EPI KA-L-LIA-NAKTOS, Apollo standing left, holding patera in extended right hand, laurel branch in left; below, stag standing left. May, Abdera, Group CXVIII, 449 (A302/P356); AMNG II 97; BMC Thrace -; SNG Copenhagen -; Jameson 2003 (same dies); SNG Lockett 1131 (same obverse die); McClean 4033 (same obverse die). Good VF, obverse struck a little softly. ($2500)

Ex Triton VI (14-15 January 2003), lot 207.

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