Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 384. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $6250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PERGAMON. Philetairos. 282-263 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.09 gm, 12h). Diademed head right / FILETAIROU, Athena enthroned left, holding shield with right hand, spear in left arm, left elbow resting on sphinx; ivy leaf above knee, A to inner left, bow to outer right. Westermark Group II (V.III/R.-; Eumenes I); SNG France 1604 (Eumenes I); BMC Mysia pg. 115, 30 (Eumenes I); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 1354; Hunterian pg. 277, 5 (same obverse die; Eumenes I); Meydancikkale 3002. FDC. Spectacular Hellenistic portrait. ($3000)

Westermark attributed this issue to Eumenes I. However, a more recent analysis of hoard evidence has indicated that this coinage is actually struck during the lifetime of Philetairos, near the end of his reign, following the limited issue of tetradrachms bearing the portrait of Seleukos I (see A. Davesne & G. Le Rider, Gülnar II. Le trésor de Meydancikkale [Paris, 1989], pp. 334-340).