Ex BCD, Aubry, and Pozzi Collections

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 603. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARKADIA, Stymphalos. Circa 370-350 BC. AR Obol (0.84 g, 12h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Head of water bird without crest right. BCD Peloponnesos 1698 = Pozzi (Boutin) 4364 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen 285. VF, toned, minor porosity. Very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (LHS, 8 May 2006), lot 1698; M. Aubry Collection (Sotheby & Co., 22 April 1970), lot 176; Prof. S. Pozzi Collection (Naville I, 4 April 1921), lot 1956.