Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2393. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARGOLIS, Argos. Circa 500/490-470 BC. AR Triobol (2.68 g, 12h). Forepart of wolf at bay left, [feet on small basis of pellets] / Large A; two small incuse squares above, pellet above and below crossbar; all within shallow square incuse. BCD Peloponnesos 1008 var. (same rev. die, regular depiction of shoulder). VF, toned, some roughness on obverse, die break on reverse. Very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from Münzen und Medaillen AG, October 1985.

Struck from the same reverse die as the previous lot. On both the previous lot and the LHS 1008 coin the die break is just beginning to be visible on the reverse. There are indications that the obverse die that struck this coin was re-engraved, perhaps the same die that struck the other two coins, which began to break at the time they were struck.