Watch List notes:

THRACE, Maroneia. Circa 430-400 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.37 g, 6h). Metrodotos, magistrate. Horse prancing left; µ-Å-rW@ and kantharos above / Grape arbor in linear square; EΠI M-HTP-OΔ-OTO around; all within shallow incuse square. Schönert-Geiss 101 (V11/R15); HGC 3, 1526; SNG Lockett 1191 = Bement 817 (same obv. die); BMC 24 = Traité IV 1448 (same obv. die); Kraay & Hirmer 430 (same dies). Toned, some scratches under tone on reverse. VF. Rare early issue.


From the Toliver Besson Collection. Ex Friend of a Scholar Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 100, 7 October 2015), lot 1304, purchased from Maison Platt, February 1988. Ex Vinchon (3 December 1984), lot 10.