Watch List notes:

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 475-450 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 14.20 g). Smor–, magistrate. Griffin with curved wing seated left, raising left forepaw; Σ-MOP clockwise around from upper left; to lower left, potbellied satyr dancing facing, head right / Quadripartite incuse square. May, Abdera, Group III, 108 (A94/P88); AMNG II 29; SNG Copenhagen 309 (same rev. die); SNG Lockett 1113 (same dies); BMC 5 (same dies); Traité IV pl. CCCXXXII, 5 (same dies). Good VF, toned, slightly granular, minor surface flaws. Rare issue, only eleven examples recorded by May, and this piece is one of only two in CoinArchives.


From the L. Shea Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2004), lot 313.