Extremely Rare Oisyme Bronze

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 400. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Oisyme. Circa 400-350 BC. Æ Chalkous (1.58 g, 9h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Herakles, wearing lion skin, kneeling right, drawing bow. Picard, Monnayage, fig. 1-2; Head, HN p. 892. Near VF, black patina, areas of roughness. Clear legend and types. Extremely rare, possibly the first to appear at auctio. None in Coin Archives.

Oisyme was a small colony established by the Thasians along the coast of Macedon between Amphipolis and Neapolis. This issue of bronze chalkoi is the sole coinage of the city, and only a handful are known, none of which have apparently appeared at auction.