Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 84. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 346/5-336 BC. AR Stater (11.66 g, 6h). Pausanias, magistrate. Griffin lying left, raising forepaw; EΠI above, ΠAYΣANI[Ω] in exergue / Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath; ABΔHPI-TEΩN around; all within shallow incuse square. May, Abdera 467 (A310/P371); AMNG II 139; SNG Copenhagen -; Weber 2388 (same dies); SNG Ashmolean 3490 (same obv. die); SNG Fitzwilliam 1642 (same obv. die). Superb EF. Sharply struck, unusually fresh metal.