Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 705

Price realized: 2,000 CHF   (Approx. 2,274 USD / 2,111 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:


THRACE. Abdera. Circa 395-360 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 23 mm, 13.03 g, 2 h), Herokleitos, magistrate. Griffin seated to left, raising right forepaw. Rev. ΕΠ ΗΡΟΚΛΕΤΟ (sic!) Kithara with seven strings; all within incuse square. Chryssanthaki-Nagle pl. 7, 13 (this coin). HGC 3.2, -. Lanz 121 (2004), 138 (same dies). May, Abdera -. Peus 407 (2012), 306 var. (reverse legend). Very rare. Struck from a somewhat worn obverse die and with minor flan faults on the reverse, otherwise, very fine.


From the T. Frisbie Collection and the Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, 229, ex Numismatic Fine Arts, 29 November 1990, 48.

Starting price: 1000 CHF