Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 391. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AEOLIS, Kyme. Circa 165-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.70 gm, 12h). Metrophanes, magistrate. Head of the Amazon Kyme right, wearing taenia / KUMAIWN, horse prancing right; one-handled cup below; MHTROFANHS in exergue; all within wreath. Oakley obv. die 1; BMC Troas pg. 111, 74; SNG Copenhagen 104 (same obverse die); SNG von Aulock -; Jameson 1460 (same obverse die); SNG Lockett 2746. Superb EF, fully struck and perfectly centered. Exceptional. ($1000)

From the Ronald Cohen Collection. Ex Triton III (30 November-1 December 1999), lot 504.