Two Issues of Themistokles

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 520. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Themistokles. Circa 465-459 BC. AR Trihemiobol (1.06 g, 2h). Head of Hephaistos right, wearing laureate pilos; A-[M] flanking / Head of eagle left; AM below. Cf. Nollé & Wenninger Th3a-b (for obv. type); cf. Nollé pl. 1, 3c (same); cf. Gorny & Mosch 159, lot 197 (hemiobol). VF, typical light porosity. Unpublished as a trihemiobol.