BYZANTIUM SILVER 9 OBOLS – ISSUE OF MAGISTRATE ANTIPATROS – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED GREEK THRACE COIN (Inv. 16715)

$1,250.00

20366. THRACE. BYZANTIUM. Ca. 240–220 BC.
Silver 9 Obols, 5.48 g, 20 mm. Struck by magistrate Antipatros.
Obv. Veiled head of Demeter right, wearing wreath of grain. Rev., Poseidon, seated right on a rocky outcropping, holding trident and aphlaston, ΠY – NE monograms in fields, ΕΠΙ ANTIPATPOY in exergue.
Schönert–Geiss 1028 (these dies), listing only 12 coins for the issue.
NGC CHOICE XF, Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5, exceptional for issue, this is the scarcer smaller denomination of the Demeter coinages struck by Byzantium and Chalcedon in the third quarter of the 3rd century BC.