Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 230. Estimate $2500. Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005. Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THRACE, Abdera. Circa 540/35-520/15 BC. AR Didrachm (7.40 gm). Griffin seated left, raising paw / Quadripartite incuse square. Unpublished. Good VF, light porosity on reverse. Unique. ($2500)
Ex Classical Numismatic Group 55 (13 September 2000), lot 55.May recorded only three didrachms in his corpus, from which this coin differs in that the griffin has a smooth wing and a feathered breast.