Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 154. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $3350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Byzantion. Circa 240-220 BC. AR Tetradrachm (13.18 g, 12h). Athanaion, magistrate. Veiled and wreathed head of Demeter right / Poseidon seated right on rocks, holding trident and aphlaston; monogram to left; EPI AQANAIWN(oV) below. Schönert-Geiss, Byz., - (V13/R-; unlisted rev. die); cf. SNG BM Black Sea 59-61; cf. SNG Copenhagen 486. VF, toned, a few marks under toning. Very rare. ($2000)

Ex Prof. Dr. Hagen Tronnier Collection (Künker 94, 27-28 September 2004), lot 546.