Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 761. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Lampsakos(?). Memnon of Rhodes. Mid 4th century BC. AR Drachm (3.04 g, 12h). Youthful head of Helios left on radiate solar disk / Rose with buds to either side; M-E flanking. Ashton, Memnon 26 (A13/P19); SNG Copenhagen 913 (Rhodes); SNG von Aulock 2769 (Megiste). VF, lightly toned, numerous cleaning scratches. Rare.

Ex Erich Karl Collection (Lanz 131, 27 November 2006), lot 796; Giessener Münzhandlung 81 (3 March 1997), lot 349.

This series of “solar disk” drachms has been variably attributed to Megiste, Nisyros, and Euthana. Recent hoard evidence, as well as single finds, has prompted a reattribution of this issue to a location in the Troad, probably Lampsakos (See Ashton, op. cit., pp. 11-15).