From the Jameson and Montagu Collections

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 167. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $3200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Hierapytna. Circa 200-67 BC. AR Didrachm (7.29 g, 1h). Samagoras, magistrate. Head of Tyche right, wearing turreted headdress, triple-pendant earring, and necklace / Palm tree; to left, eagle standing right; ΣAMA/ΓOPAΣ and monogram to right, IEPAΠYTN/ΩN below. Svoronos, Numismatique 28 var. (eagle & legend reversed); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 7 var. (same); Hunterian 2 var. (same); Jameson 2127 (this coin). Good VF, toned, die break on obverse. Very rare, and fine style for the issue.

Ex Robert Jameson Collection, 2127; Egger XLV (12 November 1913), lot 528; Hyman Montagu Collection (Part I, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 23 March 1896), lot 438.