Artistic Rendering
Sale: Triton X, Lot: 108. Estimate $3000.
Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.
Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THRACE, Abdera. Circa 386/5-375 BC. AR Tetradrachm (11.35 g, 11h). Polykrates, magistrate.
ABDHRI, griffin crouching left, raising right forepaw / Artemis standing right, holding bow and arrow in left hand, laurel branch in right; in front, below, stag standing right, nibbling on branch;
POLUKPATHS (second P retrograde) to left; all within incuse square. May,
Abdera 458 (A306/P362); AMNG II 135 note; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC p. 231, 52
b (same dies); SNG Lockett 1133 (same dies); Jameson 2006 (same dies). EF, lightly toned, with underlying luster, a little soft on reverse.
From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Triton VIII (11 January 2005), lot 238.
