Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 289. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AITOLIA, Aitolian League. Circa 220-218 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.04 gm, 1h). Attic standard. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress / AITWLWN, Aitolos seated right on a Macedonian shield which rests on a pile of three Gallic shields, which rest on Gallic karnyx, holding spear in right hand, sword in left; small L to inner left, monogram above SE to right. De Laix issue 8; BMC Thessaly pg. 195, 8; cf. SNG Copenhagen 2. Good VF, toned, slight die shift. Very rare. ($4000)

Ex Peus 378 (28 April 2004), lot 114 (realized €5750).