Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 299. Estimate $20000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EUBOIA, Chalkis. Circa 465 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.68 gm, 2h). Eagle flying right, holding serpent in its beak and talons / Wheel with four spokes; archaic C-A-L (retrograde) in three quarters; all within rough incuse triangle with Y-[A]-L in apices. BCD 116 = Traité I pg. 670, 1054b = Jameson 2070 = Pozzi 1480 (this coin); BMC Central Greece -; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, toned, light cleaning marks under tone. Extremely rare. ($20,000)

Ex BCD Collection (Lanz 111, 25 November 2002), lot 116; Kunstfreund [Gillet] (Leu & Münzen und Medaillen, 28-29 May 1974), lot 30; Charles Gillet Collection, 912; R. Jameson Collection, 2070; Prof. S. Pozzi Collection (Naville I, 14 March 1921), lot 1480; A. Rhousopoulos (J. Hirsch XIII, 15 May 1905), lot 1873.