Rare Kalymnos Didrachm

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 268. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Kalymnos. 3rd-2nd centuries BC. AR Didrachm (6.50 g, 7h). Head of warrior right, wearing crested Attic helmet / [KA]LUMNION, kithara within pelleted square border. SNG Keckman 282; SNG Copenhagen 602; SNG München 489; SNG von Aulock 2741. Good VF, wonderful dark iridescent toning.

From the W.B. and R.E. Montgomery Collection.