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May Plate Coin

Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 211. Estimate $1500. 
Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009. 
Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ILLYRO-PAEONIAN REGION, Damastion (Dardania). Circa 395-385 BC. AR Tetrobol (2.26 g, 8h). Herakleidas, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo left / Tripod on base; knife to left, HPAKΛ-EIΔO inscribed on base and to right. May, Damastion p. 103, 8 (this coin, illustrated); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; SNG Ashmolean -. Good VF, lovely old cabinet toning with underlying iridescence. Very rare denomination, unique for this issue.


Ex Prof. Dr. Hagen Tronnier Collection (Künker 94, 27 September 2004), lot 501; Ars Classica XIII (27 June 1928), lot 715.