Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1332. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $2850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Islands off. Samothrace. Circa 500-475 BC. AR Hemiobol (2.15 gm). Sphinx seated left / Head of a roaring lion left; within dotted incuse square. Schwabacher, "Ein Fund Archaischer Münzen von Samothrake," in Transactions of the International Numismatic Congress, 1936, pg. 111, 9; SNG Lockett 1211; Traité pl. cliv, 16 (as Chios). Attractively toned, EF, choice flan. Rare. ($1000)