Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 847. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Ainos. Circa 359-356 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.67 g, 11h). Head of Hermes facing slightly left, wearing petasos with studded rim / AINON, goat standing right; to right, eagle standing right. May, Ainos 429 (A260/P310); AMNG II -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 19 (same dies). EF, darkly toned, slight die shift on reverse. Well-centered strike. ($7500)

Ex Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 212.