Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 126. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $24000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Sermylia. Circa 500-480 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.52 gm). S(retrograde) ERMULIAO-N, warrior on horseback right, brandishing spear in right hand; pellet behind / Shallow quadripartite incuse square. AMNG III 2 = Traité pl. LIII, 2 (same obverse die); cf. Asyut, pg. 47, d; SNG ANS -. Ef, lightly toned, a few small spots of horn silver. Exceptional strike and metal for issue. Very rare. ($15,000)