Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 162. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Ainos. Circa 359-356 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.22 gm). Facing head of Hermes, turned slightly left, wearing petasos with studded rim / AINION, goat standing right; eagle standing right before. Cf. May, Ainos 434 (A263/P-; unlisted reverse die); BMC Thrace pg. 79, 19; SNG Copenhagen 411 var. (tripod before). Lightly toned EF, well centered and well struck, artistic head of Hermes. [See color enlargement on plate 5] ($15,000)