Exceptional and Struck from Elegant Dies

5729012.

SOLD $59750

THRACE, Ainos. Circa 359/8-357/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29.5mm, 14.79 g, 1h). Head of Hermes facing slightly left, wearing petasos / Goat standing right; AINION above; to right, eagle standing right. May, Ainos 434–5 var. (A263/P– [unlisted rev. die]); Von Fritze, Ainos, pl. ii, 2 (same obv. die); AMNG II 318; HGC 3, 1278; Regling, Kunstwerk 707 (same obv. die). Deeply toned, hairline flan crack, gently smoothed. EF. Dies of elegant style, finely centered and sharply struck, on a flan of extraordinary breadth for issue. Exceptional.

Ex Triton XXI (9 January 2018), lot 374; Gemini VII (9 January 2011), lot 295; Millennia Collection (Goldberg 46, 26 May 2008), lot 22; Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 21.