112, Lot: 19. Estimate $300. Sold for $226. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Byzantion. Circa 240-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.00 gm). Veiled and wreathed head of Demeter right / Poseidon seated right on rocks, holding trident in left arm, aphlaston in right hand; SI left; magistrate SFOD[RIA] below. Schönert-Geiss, Byz., 1011; SNG BMC Black Sea 61. Near VF, light iridescent toning, obverse heavily smoothed behind head, light porosity on reverse.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.