Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 336. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARGOLIS, Epidauros. Circa 323-240 BC. AR Drachm (4.65 gm, 12h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Asklepios seated left, extending his right hand over the head of a coiled serpent, holding a sceptre in his left hand, dog reclining at feet before throne; E to right, QE below throne. P. Requier, "Le monnayage d'Epidaure a la lumiere d'un nouveau tresor," SNR 72 (1993), 56-66 (same dies); BMC Peloponnesus pg. 156, 7; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Lockett 2508; Traité pl. CCXVII, 15. EF, lightly toned. Rare. ($2500)