CNG 84, Lot: 139. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 500-475 BC. AR Oktadrachm (26mm, 29.26 g). Griffin seated left, raising forepaw; ivy leaf to right / Quadripartite incuse square. May, Abdera -; C-N p. 105, pl. 6, 7 = SNG Ashmolean 3434; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, toned, some porosity. Extremely rare, the second known oktradrachm with ivy leaf, and the only one in private hands.

Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions XVI (16 August 1991), lot 117.