Watch List notes:

THRACO-MACEDONIAN TRIBES, Edones. Getas. Circa 492-464 BC. AR Tristater – "Oktadrachm" (32mm, 25.56 g, 8h). Reduced Aeginetan standard. Herdsman, wearing kausia, guiding two bulls walking right upon dotted ground line; lotus flower to lower right / Wheel with four spokes; ΓETAΣ BAΣIΛEYΣ HΔONEON around; all within shallow incuse square. Tatscheva 2–3 var. (no lotus, slightly different legend); Peykov C0070 var. (same); Topalov –; HPM pl. IV, 19 var. (same; Ichnai); HGC 3, 293 var. (same) and 310 corr. (not Ichnai). Toned, holed, roughness, light scratches. Near VF. Apparently unique variety.

From the Collection of a Northern California Gentleman, purchased from Frank Kovacs, 21 March 1998.

Margarita Tatscheva, in her comprehensive 1998 study of Getas' coinage, lists thirteen known octadrachms of three different types, which suggest a reign of substantial duration. Of those coins, three were from the Dekadrachm (Elmali) Hoard, nine were in museums, and apparently only one was privately owned. The wheel, which appears on the reverse type on four of Getas' previously known coins, is the normal reverse type for the Ichnai. Its presence here may signify that Getas brought the Ichnai under his authority. King Getas is known to history only from his coins.