Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 955. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off IONIA. Samos. Circa 408/4-385/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.83 g, 7h). Marsyas, magistrate. Facing lion's scalp / Forepart of bull right; branch behind, MARSUAS above, SA below nose, bee below. Cf. Barron Class X, 138 (A65/P-; unlisted magistrate); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Hecatomnus -; Pixodarus p. 216, 1. Good VF, attractively toned, well-centered. Extremely rare, one of only two coins known from this magistrate (both from the Pixodarus hoard). ($7500)

Ex Lanz 46 (1998), lot 278; Antiqua FPL IX (undated [2000]), no. 49; Pixodarus Hoard (CH 9, 421).