Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 245. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Apollonia Pontika. Circa 400-350 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.09 gm, 11h). Kleokrates, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo left / Upright anchor; A and crayfish flanking, KLEOKRATHS to left. SNG BM Black Sea 165 var. (magistrate); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Berry 393 var. (same; same obverse die); Traité IV pg. 1024, 1622 = Pozzi 2565 var. (head right). EF, attractively toned, a few light scratches under tone, patches of light encrustation. Extremely rare. ($15,000)

Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 102 (24 May 2000), lot 117; Giessener Münzhandlung 60 (5 October 1992), lot 89.