Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 348. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Tenos. Circa 250 BC. AR Didrachm (6.86 gm, 11h). Laureate head of young Zeus Ammon right; A behind / THNIWN, Poseidon standing left, holding dolphin in right hand, trident in left; grape cluster in left field. BMC Crete pg. 128, 7; SNG Copenhagen 769; Lampson 252 (same dies). VF, toned. Rare. ($1500)

The obverse portrait of Zeus-Ammon on these coins was modelled upon the posthumous portraits of Alexander the Great depicted on the coinage of Lysimachos.