Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 280. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $775. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AEOLIS, Kyme. Circa 165-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.75 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Metrophanes, magistrate. Head of the Amazon Kyme right, wearing taenia / Horse prancing right; KYMAIΩN to right, one-handled cup below raised foreleg, MHTPOΦANHΣ below; all within wreath. Oakley obv. die 1; SNG Copenhagen 104 (same obv. die); Jameson 1460 (same obv. die); de Luynes 2525 (same obv. die). Near EF, toned, a couple minor die breaks on obverse.