Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 304. Closing Date: Jan 10, 2005. 
Sold For $6250 

Eretria, Euboia. After 180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.98 g). Charodamos, magistrate. Bust of Demeter right, hair tied behind head, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; bow and quiver over shoulder / <font face="SYMBOL">ERETRIEWN</font>, bull standing right, head facing, fillets hanging from horns; CARODAMOS below; all within laurel wreath. BCD 344 (this coin); Thompson, "The Beginning of the Athenian New Style Coinage," ANSMN V (1952), 4; Waggoner, "Coins from the W.P. Wallace Collection," ANS
MN 25 (1980), p. 10; BMC -; SNG Cop -; Jameson 2075 var. (magistrate); SNG Berry 625 var. (same). 
Very rare, and one of only three known with this magistrate. 
($10,000)

Ex BCD Collection (Lanz 111, 25 November 2002), lot 344.

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