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Triton XIV, Lot: 236. Estimate $500.
Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.88 g, 11h). New Style coinage. Dorothe(os), Dioph-, and Diokle(ides), magistrates. Struck 132/1 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 ΔΩP/OӨE/ΔIO/KΛE ΔIOΦ (magistrates’ names) in five lines across field; to right, forepart of lion right; B on amphora, [Δ]I below; all within wreath. Thompson 384e-f (same obv. die). Near EF, lightly toned, minor deposit on the reverse.