Sale: Triton X, Lot: 243. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 168/5-50 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.99 g, 12h). New style coinage. Amphias and Oinophilos, magistrates. Struck 81/0 BC. Head of Athena right, wearing triple-crested Attic helmet decorated with a palmette and griffin on the bowl / A-QE, owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; to right, Demeter standing left, holding long torch in both hands; A on amphora, [AP below], magistrates AM-FI-AS, OINO-FI-LOS; all within wreath. Thompson 1188b (same dies). Near EF, dark iridescent toning, minor area of flat strike.