Watch List notes:

THRACE, Abdera. Circa 395-360 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 12.81 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 – (A277/P319 – unlisted combination); AMNG II 105.1, pl. 2, 40 = Berlin 65 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Lockett 1132 = Weber 2379; Gulbenkian 447 = Jameson 2000 (same obv. die). Superb EF, wonderful deep iridescent toning, die break on reverse. Fine style; one of the most beautiful types of classical Abdera. Very rare.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Leu 72 (12 May 1998), lot 143 (incorrectly citing May 393); Geissener Münzhandlung 48 (2 April 1990), lot 131 (incorrectly citing May 393); probably Thrace(?), c. 1986 hoard (CH VIII, 103 (but not noted in Lorber, Appendix III).