Ex Newell Collection

221, Lot: 310. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARKADIA, Pheneos. Circa 360-350 BC. AR Hemidrachm (14mm, 2.44 g, 6h). Head of Demeter left, wearing grain wreath, triple-pendent earring, and pearl necklace / Bull standing right; kerykeion on shoulder. BCD Peloponnesos 1618; BCD Peloponnesos II 2704 (same dies). Fine, toned, porous. Very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (not in previous sales); Edward T. Newell Collection (Sotheby’s, 16 October 1968), lot 177 (part of).