Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 304. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $6250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EUBOIA, Eretria. After 180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.98 gm, 1h). Charodamos, magistrate. Bust of Demeter right, hair tied behind head, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; bow and quiver over shoulder / ERETRIEWN, bull standing right, head facing, fillets hanging from horns; CARODAMOS below; all within laurel wreath. BCD 344 (this coin); M. Thompson, "The Beginning of the Athenian New Style Coinage," ANSMN V (1952), 4; N. Waggoner, "Coins from the W.P. Wallace Collection," ANSMN 25 (1980), pg. 10; BMC Central Greece -; SNG Copenhagen -; Jameson 2075 var. (magistrate); SNG Berry 625 var. (same). Good VF, light iridescent toning, good metal. Very rare, and one of only three known with this magistrate. ($10,000)

Ex BCD Collection (Lanz 111, 25 November 2002), lot 344.