Watch List notes:

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 395-360 BC. AR Stater (22.5mm, 12.93 g, 12h). Philados, magistrate. Griffin seated left; cicada to left, ABΔH to right / Herakles seated half-left, his head turned to half-right, on lion skin draped over rock, his right hand holding club set vertically on his knee, his left arm resting on his left thigh; EΠI ΦIΛA-ΔOΣ at sides; all within shallow incuse square. May, Abdera 396 (A277/P322); Lorber p. 178, n (this coin); AMNG II 105.4 = Ars Classica XIII, lot 620 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Lockett 1132 = Weber 2379; Gulbenkian 447 = Jameson 2000 (same obv. die). EF, toned. Fine style. Very rare.


Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 46 (30 October 1989), lot 57; c. 1986 Thrace(?) Hoard (CH VIII, 103).