Triton XX, Lot: 357. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SAMARIA, “Middle Levantine” Series. Circa 375-333 BC. AR Obol (10.5mm, 0.77 g, 5h). Imitating Athens. Bearded male head right, wearing laurel wreath(?) / Owl standing right, head facing; olive spray and crescent to left, BDYḤ (in Aramaic, D and Ḥ retrograde) to right. Unpublished, but cf. Meshorer & Qedar 8 for a similar issue. EF, deeply toned. Good metal. Apparently unique.