Sale: Nomos 3 & 4, Lot: 1020. Estimate CHF600. Closing Date: Monday, 9 May 2011. Sold For CHF2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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THESSALY, Ainianes. Circa 80s (- 40s?) BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 2.35 g 1), Hypata. Daimeneos. ΔΑΙΜΕ - ΝΕΟΣ Head of Athena in Attic helmet to right.
Rev. ΑΙΝΙΑΝ-ΩΝ Phemios as a slinger to right, as above; to right, palm branch. De Callataÿ, 2004, p. 135, 24 (
this coin). SNG Lockett 1547. SNG Munich 5. Very rare. Toned and attractive, but reverse slightly double struck. Good very fine.
Ex Vinchon 9 December 1983, 100 (FF 10,000).
In the SNG Munich this coin is termed a diobol. I find this quite impossible since silver fractions below the value of a hemidrachm had almost entirely ceased to exist after the later 3rd century. De Callataÿ tentatively suggests it is a tetrobol, which makes more sense, but when compared to the large denomination in the preceding lots, I prefer to see it as a hemidrachm.