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Triton XIV, Lot: 231. Estimate $500.
Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.92 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Polycharm(os), Nikog(enes), and Karaichos, magistrates. Struck 133/2 BC. Head of Athena Parthenos right, wearing necklace, pendent earring, and triple-crested Attic helmet decorated with the protomes of four horses above the visor, a Pegasos in flight rightward above the raised earpiece, and a curvilinear ornament on the shell / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; A-ӨE above ΠOΛY-XAPM/NIKOΓ/KAPA/IKOV (magistrates’ names) in five lines across field; winged kerykeion to left, K on amphora, ΔI below; all within wreath. Cf. Thompson 379/380a (same obv. die/rev. type). Near EF, lightly toned.